Drew’s Reviews > Madame Bovary > Status Update

In many ways it's an oddity that this book's rich embroidery of dreams, desires and romantic folly has come to signify the apogee of realism.
What realism there is lies in the way that Flaubert brutally undercuts these fanciful daydreams with the bathos of provincial life in Normandy

I have been looking forward to this, curious to experience Flaubert in French!