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 ...

As Flaubert famously said, “ Madame Bovary, c’est moi ”: If Emma’s metaphors are empty in comparison with the fullness of her soul, which of us could do better? Ruth Franklin is a senior editor at The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reading Madame Bovary for the first time was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life - at least up to that point. I was a very young woman - not even eighteen. I was au pair in the French ...

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 ...