Charles Bovary, Country Doctor A Portrait of a Simple Man - New York Review Books Classics

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 Dr. Bovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.

ISBN:	9781681372501
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Imprint:	New York Review Books
Published date:	08 Nov 2018
DEWEY:	838.91409
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 155
Weight:	204g
Height:	202mm
Width:	126mm
Spine width:	15mm

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