The TV series may be cancelled, but if you’re still hankering for a desperate housewife you can’t do better than Madame Bovary. The 1856 French classic novel by Gustave Flaubert seems so current that ...

I have read English translations of Madame Bovary four times now, and until this one, by Lydia Davis, I always appreciated Gustave Flaubert's novel with a somewhat removed feeling - stamped it as ...

"A good sentence in prose," Gustave Flaubert wrote, "should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable." How daunting a task, then, faces the translator of Flaubert's taut, luminous classic, "Madame ...

The project to bring the final manuscript and multiple rough drafts to the general public for free took five years – the same time it took the perfectionist 19th century French author to complete his ...

Filmmakers have been trying to capture Madame Bovary on the screen ever since the movies learned to talk. But, although film technology has improved, the challenge of giving a good account of Gustave ...

After sneaking onto a literature degree via a comprehensive, I found myself nonplussed by the rules and exclusions. I can still feel the gooseflesh of my first reading. The story is relatively simple.