Charles Bovary, Country Doctor

Fans of Flaubert'sMadame Bovarywill want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy,Charles Bovary, Country Doctoris also a book about love.Charles Bovary, Country Doctoris one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-centuryliterature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary,the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and theheartlesscreation of Gustave Flaubert.As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz, author Jean Ameryhad a particular sympathy forthe lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering,and in this bookavailable in English for the first timeheasserts the moral claimsof Dr. Bovary.What results is a moving paean to thehumanity of Charles Bovaryand to the supreme value of love.