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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Flaubert, Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Note To The Reader:

Madame Bovary may not be an easy book to like. If the student reading
the novel for the first time finds it somehow cold or unsympathetic, puzzling
or "monotonous," he will be in respectable company. Such has been the initial
reaction of many intelligent readers, even though virtually all critics agree
the book is a masterpiece of modern literature. The difficulties in reading
the book in English cannot be attributed to a loss of "style" in translation.
For, although style is the least translatable element of writing, ...

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