Charles Bovary, country doctor
Subtitle: portrait of a simple man
By: Jean Améry ; translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West
Contributors: West, Adrian Nathan, translator
Series: New York Review Books classics
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781681372501
Subjects: Charles Bovary; Losers; Characters; Charles Bovary (Fictitious character); Cuckolds; Fiction
Work titles: Charles Bovary, Landarzt
Description: Améry reimagines Flaubert's Madame Bovary from the point of view of Charles Bovary. Charles Bovary tells his side, Améry vindicates Flaubert's hated bourgeoisie, and in the end, Flaubert himself winds up in the docket, forced to account for the implausibility of his own vaunted realism. -- adapted from back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Threnody; title: Ridiculous sum; title: The reality of Gustave Flaubert; title: The bourgeois as lover; title: The reality of Charles Bovary; title: JÀccuse.