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

Flaubert, Gustave
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary and Bibliography

Summary Of Criticism:

The critical judgments of and approaches to Madame Bovary have been
enormously varied. Much of the best writing on the book, naturally, is in
French, but the following will give the student some idea of the positions and
interests of a number of important critics.

Two of the earliest pieces on Madame Bovary are reviews by Sainte-Beuve
and Baudelaire. Sainte-Beuve rather stuffily commends the book's excellence of
style, but deplores the fact that there is not a single good character in it.
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