Allowed Quote by Brigitte Macron

Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand…

— Sophie Barthes

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

“Proust, who did not greatly admire Flaubert, except perhaps in his narrow sense as a stylist - or perhaps only did not care very…

— Enid Starkie

Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is…

— Sophie Barthes

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She…

— Sophie Barthes

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will…

— John Irving

“I must confess that in all the times I read Madame Bovary, I never noticed the heroine's rainbow eyes. Should I have? Would you?…

— Julian Barnes

“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has…

— David Lodge

“You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you…

— John Irving