As Emma unsuccessfully seeks passion in her life, she is lifted into a dreamlike state; shortly after she returns to earth, she encounters Rodolphe (Christopher Gerty), a man who seeks only to conquer ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. When Viking asked Lydia Davis to translate Madame Bovary, back in 2006, she said no. She had recently ...

It may be, as the proverb states, that inside every fat person there is a thin one trying to get out, but it is likely not true that inside every great novel there is a fine film struggling to be made ...

Gustave Flaubert was an apostle of le mot juste — using exactly the right word. Lydia Davis elegantly translates his masterpiece, Madame Bovary,... 'Bovary' Translation Does 'Le Mot Juste' Justice How ...

Shock horror: bored doctor's wife becomes a Bunny Girl at the age of 154. Playboy magazine's literary "Playmate of the Month" is Madame Bovary, the naughty doctor's wife from a small town in Normandy ...

Chinese director Feng Xiaogang reteams with star Fan Bingbing in the social satire 'I Am Madame Bovary'. By THR Staff The sarcasm of superstar director Feng Xiaogang reduces Chinese bureaucracy, the ...

I didn't like Madame Bovary when I first encountered the book as a teenager. The story of a suicide of a doctor's wife in rural 1840s Normandy seemed too banal for me. Like many others, I didn't ...