All I know is that it is called, Madam Bovary, and that it is by Gustave Flaubert.
And I'm assuming that it's French.
"Madam" and "Gustave" being the operative words to bring me to this conclusion.
Madam Bovary has been on my To-Read list for a while now. It's part of the Canon (I think) and I've heard cheeps here and there that it describes the doing-s of a very bored woman.
You think, "How interesting can reading about a bored woman be?"
Very. Interesting.
From my past experiences reading up on very bored women and house wives, the dissatisfaction and the monotony all foster the behaviors associated with housewives, including cattiness toward others, simple-mindedness, and deviousness.
Not surprisingly, these factors can all stir in together to create a very captivating plot that makes readers simultaneously hate and empathize with the female characters.
I love issues. Women's Issues in particular, but also any population that has been suppressed and misrepresented. I love reading about how a group's "duty," or stereotype, or roll that was thrust on them unwillingly affected their behavior.
Which is why my last posts were on Black Boy.
I loved reading Richard Wright's Native Son in high school. I felt like I understood to another degree of why a population often lives up to (or down to) the standards that are placed on them. There is a vicious cycle that inflicts the psyche, which in turn affects the behavior.
If Madam Bovary is anything like Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, or Kate Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings, I'm sure I am going to love it.
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