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It's cheering - isn't it? - the way Playboy upholds the primacy of the erotic canon over the claims of postmodern challengers like Roxana Shirazi's salacious memoir, The Last Living Slut.įor a translator, even one as renowned as Lydia Davis, Flaubert, the great apostle of le mot juste - using exactly the right word - must surely be the Matterhorn of authors. 'The most scandalous novel of all time!' hisses a headline on Playboy' s cover. No, what's wresting attention away from the latest lineup of hydroponically enhanced models is an excerpt from Lydia Davis' new translation of Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece. Of course, what the Playboy connoisseurs are surveying is not Madame Bovary's fine form, nor her much-commented-upon smooth bands of black hair or great dark eyes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Ĭover and App icon is a frame with Isabelle Huppert of movie 'Madame Bovary' 1991, Director: Claude Chabrol.How tickled Madame Bovary herself would be by the latest homage paid to her - a feature in the September issue of Playboy magazine! For the 'original desperate housewife,' as she's been called, the knowledge that she's the object of the collective male gaze might have relieved some of the dismal boredom that characterized so much of Emma Bovary's provincial life.

Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ('the right word').

Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Series: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Series: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time Virtual Entertainment, 2013 The story focuses on a doctor's wif

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