Charles eventually muddles through a medical education of sorts and takes a position as a Public Health Officer in Tostes, marrying a domineering widow Mme. Bovary, who has spent his wife's fortune and retired to country life. He is the inept son of a former assistant army surgeon Charles-Denis-B. He invented a new modern style of writing in which dialog is minimal and there is no one obviously telling the story but a changing disembodied voice coming from somewhere.īegins with recollection by a classmate of Charles Bovary at 15, when he entered prep school in Rouen as a provincial and is cruelly mocked by his classmates. Flaubert's intent is to satirize the lower middle-class. Their marriage occurs during the reign of King Louis-Phillipe, the bourgeois blatantly middle-class "citizen king". Notes per Penguin edition: Written in the early 1850s, covers period of 1827-46. The "heroine" Emma is very unsympathetically Overall Impression: I found this required classic deliberately repulsive and grim, Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 1998Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the Penguin 1992 edition.
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