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Jean Amery undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature- a novel-essay devoted to salvaging the poor bungler, Charles Bovary, from the depredations of his creator, Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist reduced to hack journalism for two decades after the Second World War, Amery had a particular sympathy for failure, and Charles Bovary- Country Doctoris his phenomenology of the loser, blending fiction and philosophy to assert the moral claims of the most famous, most risible cuckold in all of Western literature. Charles Bovary tells his side, Amery vindicates Flaubert's hated bourgeoisie, and in the end, the Master himself winds up in the docket, forced to account for the implausibility of his own vaunted realism. At the same time, in Charles's words, Amery offers a moving paean to the majesty of Madame Bovary herself, and to the supreme value of love.… (plus d'informations)
An interesting idea, a great form; I remember being bored by long stretches of it, but I also remember being really taken by the first few sections, in particular. ( )
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'Les maris trompés que ne savent rien savent tout, tout de même.' [1]
—MARCEL PROUST, La Prisonnière”
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"To suffer," writes Paul Valéry, "is to grant something supreme attention." (Introduction)
I want her laid out in her wedding dress, with white shoes, and a wreath.
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Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is a book for readers of the kind Améry describes: a phenomenology of the loser. a defense of the moral debt to sentimentality against the fetish of objectivity, and a love letter to one of fiction's immortal heroines. (Introduction)
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Jean Amery undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature- a novel-essay devoted to salvaging the poor bungler, Charles Bovary, from the depredations of his creator, Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist reduced to hack journalism for two decades after the Second World War, Amery had a particular sympathy for failure, and Charles Bovary- Country Doctoris his phenomenology of the loser, blending fiction and philosophy to assert the moral claims of the most famous, most risible cuckold in all of Western literature. Charles Bovary tells his side, Amery vindicates Flaubert's hated bourgeoisie, and in the end, the Master himself winds up in the docket, forced to account for the implausibility of his own vaunted realism. At the same time, in Charles's words, Amery offers a moving paean to the majesty of Madame Bovary herself, and to the supreme value of love.
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