Madame Bovary -

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin

2012

432 páginas

14h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780143123804

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F is for Flaubert. Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for its heroine. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of realist fiction. In this landmark translation of Flaubert’s masterwork, Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of a style that has long beguiled readers of French, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form.

Resenhas (34)

4 (Muito bom)

Lutando por um sonho ou apenas sendo egoísta?

Qual o limite moral que separa o "estar certo por lutar pelos sonhos da sua vida" e o "ser tão egoísta a ponto de enganar e desgraçar aqueles que te amam e confiam em você"?

Nunca tinha achado uma personagem que dividisse tanto minha opinião quando Emma. Ela é de longe a melhor personagem desse livro, me fez ficar sempre oscilando entre torcer pra ela se livrar do seu sofrimento e torcer pra ela se ferrar por ser tão egoísta.

Esse livro tem uma linguagem difícil (nunca li um livro que precisasse tanto de um dicionário), mas os personagens são maravilhosos e muito complexos e não tem como não se prender a eles. É uma ótima crítica tanto à sociedade quanto ao próprio ser humano como parte dela, recomendo a leitura para aqueles que querem um bom clássico.