Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Book Review

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Banned Book Club Podcast

Күн бұрын

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@cartermorel4275 Жыл бұрын

@@bannedbookclub Thank you for making videos. I resonated with your description of American Psycho often being too descriptive. While I understood the point, I also thought it could have been dialled back just that little bit.

@koulacuneo737 Жыл бұрын

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@g.s.3450 4 ай бұрын

Also, while reading “Madame Bovary” I also read Rene Girard’s “Deceit, Desire & the Novel - Self and Other in Literary Structure.” Giard talks a lot about Flaubert’s characters especially Emma and it is a close study of this psychological illness (“chronic affective dissatisfaction). In 1892 Jules de Gaultier invented the term ‘Bovaryism’. It means escapist daydreaming instead of engaging directly with life. It reminds me of Walter Mitty. Thanks for your podcast!

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@g.s.3450 4 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation, thanks! Your closing remarks were spot on: reading worthless books can ruin you life, just like it did in Emma’s case. Her demise parallels Cervantes’ Don Quixote who had gorged himself on worthless books about knightly chivalry. If you want to improve you lot in life read banned books instead of Harlequin Romances. Thanks for your podcast!

@BryanAndrewCothrun 3 ай бұрын

This person compared Flaubert to American Psycho. Seriously seems like they don’t have expansive reading credentials. Anytime a book is summarized as boring this way it seems like the style isn’t being considered enough or just isn’t effective for an individual but gd the way it’s stated seems the former. It’s also not thoughtful criticism to just say it’s boring and the book is also largely about boredom-the word is embedded in the novel many many times ostensibly with great intent.

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@MarkDouglass-dt9ky 7 ай бұрын

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@renecanales Жыл бұрын

This book is great style wise. Flaubert positions Madame Bovary at the top of classic novels, but I am not sure he was a natural talented writer like Camus for example. Now, I have to be honest I had a similar feeling when I read this book for first time than when I saw Braveheart. Great, but something is missing.

@bannedbookclub Жыл бұрын

Definitely not a natural from the beginning - in fact I don't know of any writer who had to spend as much time as he did refining his work, but you can see the effort pay off in this novel. Maybe the term genius should be reserved for people who are able to write at that level from the start, but regardless of the effort it took there's genius in Flaubert's prose. --as far as feeling like somethings missing, I think he was trying to embody that feeling of 'missingness' in Emma through the words. Sounds like a cop-out, but everything here felt like it served a purpose, even the boring parts.

@kentong2033 Жыл бұрын

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@bannedbookclub Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words!