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Loading... Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man (New York Review Books Classics) (original 1978; edition 2018)by Jean Améry (Author)
Work InformationCharles Bovary, country doctor: portrait of a simple man by Jean Améry (1978)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An interesting idea, a great form; I remember being bored by long stretches of it, but I also remember being really taken by the first few sections, in particular. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Jean Amery undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature- a novel-essay devoted to salvaging the poor bungler, Charles Bovary, from the depredations of his creator, Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist reduced to hack journalism for two decades after the Second World War, Amery had a particular sympathy for failure, and Charles Bovary- Country Doctoris his phenomenology of the loser, blending fiction and philosophy to assert the moral claims of the most famous, most risible cuckold in all of Western literature. Charles Bovary tells his side, Amery vindicates Flaubert's hated bourgeoisie, and in the end, the Master himself winds up in the docket, forced to account for the implausibility of his own vaunted realism. At the same time, in Charles's words, Amery offers a moving paean to the majesty of Madame Bovary herself, and to the supreme value of love. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)838.91409Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Miscellaneous German writings 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990 Individual authors not limited to one specific form : description; critical appraisal; biography; collected worksLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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