Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · first published 1856
Mentioned 7 time(s) by 6 guest(s): 2 recommend, 1 critical. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Katherine Rundell on Conversations with Tyler (2023-01-11): mention
“…I was wondering if Madame Bovary counts as a novel of ideas…”
Katherine Rundell on Conversations with Tyler (2023-01-11): recommend
“…Madame Bovary, which I remember reading as a teenager and feeling like it kicked the knees…”
Lydia Davis on Conversations with Tyler (2022-03-23): mention
“…After Charles’s first wife dies — the wife that precedes Emma Bovary — the narrator says…”
Jason Furman on Conversations with Tyler (2020-08-26): mention
“…But it's not like I'd not read Madame Bovary because it got 3.7, because a bunch of college students were mad they were assigned it.…”
Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth (Ep. 103)
Elizabeth Gilbert on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-05-18): recommend
“…that's Anna Karenina and it's Madame Bovary and it's Hedda Gabler, and it's Daisy Miller, all of those novels written by men…”
Karl Ove Knausgård on Conversations with Tyler (2019-05-08): mention
“…If Madame Bovary is very painful — the ending — but you know that world will continue.…”
Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-01): critique
“…For this book, I reread Madam Bovary, which was very disappointing.…”