Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Gelesen von Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
(4,714 Sterne; 28 Bewertungen)
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. (Summary by Peter Dann) (0 hr 33 min)
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A Classic, but not sure why…
Scott in Sandy Eggo
(5 Sterne)
First, thank you to Peter Dann for his excellent reading and making this wonderful contribution to the LibriVox catalog. He is one of the very best readers. Tasked with reading this in high school, I returned to see if it held a similar fascination. While shocking for its time, the study of characters who are incapable of suspecting themselves or others of the obvious is perhaps now, and even then, somewhat improbable and less credible. But I suspect that there’s a moral in this story somewhere.
Magnificent
Vivek
(5 Sterne)
Peter Dann is fast displacing Bob Neufeld as my favourite reader on Librivox. His word-painting and rhythmic variations do the impossible, and make this perfect novel even better.
calsun
(4 Sterne)
Excellent reader. I always wanted to read this book. The style of writing I enjoyed wonderful descriptions and emotion. The story was a little dull however.
I love this book.
Karen Bromberg
(5 Sterne)
The reader is superb
Nothing wrong with the audiobook...
Pauliina Tulenheimo
(3,5 Sterne)
... but frankly, I am not a fan of the story. Sure, the narration has stylistic value, but to today's readers the style is already familiar and for me, to be quite honest, it was simply dull. It reads like a nature documentary and I found there was little tension or subtext in the story (not to mention that since Flaubert's days, these kind of stories of doomed women have gotten so common that it's hard not to find them tiresome). However, the reading itself was great and I am very grateful of the recording because I don't think I could have finished this by reading it on my own.
A Classic of Realistic Fiction
TLocke
(5 Sterne)
A story of love, romance,and the despair when love does not seem enough in life. IRead this first in my 20s, again at 40. Now nearing retirement, the same tale has spoken a different sense of meaning each time. The misery she left after her suicide now seems the worst most selfish act was her suicide. A cowardly way to leave all with ongoing misery. Reader was very fine.