Gemma Bovery

by Posy Simmonds

Unknown Binding

Published July 7, 2004

About the author

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.

Reviews

[Glop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une adaptation moderne de Madame Bovary, je recommande vivement d'avoir l'original en tête au risque de passer à côté de plusieurs références mais l'histoire est charmante et bien illustrée.