I found this to be a fun synchronicity!
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I'd brought four copies of Flaubert's novel to the hospital: the French original, the English translation, and two Chinese translations.
Translation is an extremely challenging task, and a good translation is even more challenging.
#XiXi #NYRBwomen25 #FlaubertTogether Madame Bovary
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I just realized that Madame Bovary is basically an opera without the singing.
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"Sometimes, though, the curious would hoist themselves up on the garden hedge, and observe in amazement a wild man with a long beard, dressed in shabby clothes, weeping out loud as he went along."
(III.11) - Wall
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"Now and the, however, some curious person would hoist himself above the garden hedge, and observe with amazement this wild man with his long beard, dressed in dirty clothes, who wept aloud as he walked."
(III.11) - Davis
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Thank you to everyone. This has been one of my favourite group reads.
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Emma chases rapture relentlessly, while Charles, though far from dashing, loves her doggedly and irrationally, and Lheureux ruins them both. Hard to forgive the couple for so completely failing their daughter. I forgot how utterly bleak and galling the end is. :( #Flauberttogether
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It would only be fair if Madame Bovary’s daughter Berthe became a writer. Poor kid. #Flauberttogether
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1. "She was corrupting him from beyond the grave." hahaha
2. Indictment against the newspaper's power- Homais ruins lives and controls the village with his invented anecdotes.
(III.10) - Steegmuller #FlaubertTogether #MadameBovary #DangeroftheMedia Adieu, little awful village.
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Illustration Pierre Noël
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III,11
„Quant à l'inscription, Homais ne trouvait rien de beau comme Sta viator, et il en restait là; il se creusait l'imagination; il répétait continuellement: Sta viator...Enfin, il découvrit: amabilem conjugem calcas! qui fut adopté.“
II,2
„j‘ai moi-même à sa disposition une
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thanks, everyone for reading along!
adieu, Charles, Emma!
Day 42, Aug 27, Wed - p303 “Charles, the next day…” to END OF NOVEL
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Well that got very dark! I miss the shopping and the sex. #flauberttogether
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Happy accident to read these simultaneously & ponder the Traditional Ideal Woman/wife vis-a-vis Flora from The Soul of Kindness (1964) by Elizabeth Taylor née Coles & Emma from #MadameBovary (1856) by Gustav Flaubert. Both attack this ideal subtly & w/humor.
#SoulofKindness_2025 #FlaubertTogether
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"The priests, the cantors and the two choirboys recited the De profundis; and their voices carried over the fields, rising and falling in waves. ... Charles felt himself overcome...these cloying odors of wax and cassocks."
(III.10) - Steegmuller #FlaubertTogether
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Madame BOVARY
III,10
„Il refusa même de voir sa petite-fille.
— Non! non! ça me ferait trop de deuil. Seulement, vous l'embrasserez bien! Adieu!… vous êtes un bon garçon! Et puis, jamais je n'oublierai ça, dit-il en se frappant la cuisse, n'ayez peur!
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second to last day!
Day 41, Aug 26, Tues - SHORT DAY ALL OF CH 10 p298 “He had not received the pharmacist’s letter…” to p303
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He stood there a long time thus recalling all his past happiness—her poses, her gestures, the sound of her voice. Wave of despair followed upon wave, endlessly, like the waters of an overflowing tide.
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Madame Bovary III, 9
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“…it seemed to him she was spreading out beyond herself, confusedly melting into the things around her, into the silence, the night, the wind passing through, the damp smells rising.”
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Day 40, Aug 25, Mon - ALL OF CH 9 p290 “After a person dies…” to p298
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Madame BOVARY
III,9
„—Lisez Voltaire ! disait l'un; lisez d'Holbach, lisez l'Encyclopédie!
—Lisez les Lettres de quelques juifs portugais! disait l'autre; lisez la Raison du christianisme, par Nicolas, ancien magistrat!
Ils s'échauffaient, ils étaient rouges,
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Nothing like extending lunch invitations and getting his kids examined while his poisoned neighbor is dying. Homais at his finest.
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Doctor Larivière, the legend!
“His gaze, keener than his lancet, would descend straight into your soul, past your excuses and your reticence, and disarticulate your every lie.”
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Day 39, Aug 24, Sun - FINISH CH 8 p282 “Charles tried to leaf through his medical dictionary…” to p290 “She had ceased to exist.”
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ILLUSTRATION DE PIERRE NOËL
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Madame BOVARY III,8
Il souffla bien fort ce jour-là,
Et le jupon court s'envola!
Une convulsion la rabattit sur le matelas. Tous s'approchèrent. Elle n'existait plus.
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Madame BOVARY III,8
„Elle en avait fini, songeait-elle, avec toutes les trahisons, les bassesses et les innombrables convoitises qui la torturaient. Elle ne haïssait personne, maintenant; une confusion de crépuscule s'abattait en sa pensée, et de tous les bruits de la terre
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"She was suffering purely for love, and in remembering him she felt her soul slip from her, just as injured men, in their agony, feel life seeping away, through their bleeding wounds."
(III.8) - Wall
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"She was suffering only because of her love, and felt her soul abandoning her through the memory of it, just as the wounded, in their last agony, feel life itself going out of them through their bleeding wounds."
(III.8) - Davis
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#flauberttogether 3.8.1
Stop after reading just half of chapter 8?!
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