num_pages: 196
description:  is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and the heartless creation of Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz, author Jean Améry had a particular sympathy for the lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering, and in this book—available in English for the first time—he asserts the moral claims of Dr. Bovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.
language: French
title: Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne: Portrait d'un homme simple
titlecomplete: Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne: Portrait d'un homme simple
genres: Fiction, France, German Literature, Literature, Essays, 20th Century, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 86
publisher: ACTES SUD