Fans of Flaubert''s Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature''s most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love.Charles Bovary, Country Doctor 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 DrBovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
184 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2018-09-04 |
| ISBN |
9781681372501 |
