Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man

by Jean Améry

Book Overview

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love.

Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681372509
• ISBN13: 9781681372501
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"