Madame Bovary

…Voglio dire, cosa succede se una signora un po' frivola sposa un noioso farmacista di provincia e poi si annoia terribilmente e un giorno incontra un bel giovane come Madame Bovary.…

…I can tell you the book that made me fall in love with the French language is Madame Bovary.…

…You could put passages from Bellow's novel and passages from Madame Bovary together, and you would say, despite modernism sort of sitting chronologically between 1856 and 1956, that's to say in the 1920s and 1930s, Bellow's novel reads like a good student of Flaubert's.…