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Tag Name "Bovary" (7)

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Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
Alberto Manguel
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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
Salman Rushdie
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Flaubert's famous sentence, Madame Bovary, c'est moi (Madame Bovary, she is me), in reality means, Madame Bovary, c'est nous (Madame Bovary, she is us), in our modern incapacity to live a good-enough life.
Sophie Barthes
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
David Mitchell
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
Margaret Atwood
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Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.
Sophie Barthes