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It still astonishes. If one ...
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040829
Author:Michael Dirda
MADAME BOVARY
By Gustave Flaubert
Translated from the French By Margaret Mauldon
Oxford Univ. 328 pp. $27 It still astonishes.
If one were to ask, "World, which is the most perfect novel ever written?," the world would immediately answer: Madame Bovary. There are novels of greater structural complexity, such as Lord Jim and The Good Soldier, or of a broader social canvas, like Anna Karenina and In Search of Lost Time, or of more stylistic dash -- Ulysses, Lolita - - and many far more beloved (Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Leopard), but Madame Bovary still stands as the most ...
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