Inspired by 809 (Baudelaire and Flaubert contemporary and controversial) to re-read this. Remarkably (despite 14) I really enjoyed this, although 14 was 8 years ago and read from my kindle in Spain, possibly in a different translation. (Why did I buy it on kindle since we have a paperback copy, bought August 1977, at home?) Anyway it is excellent, the plot which I pretty well knew, doesn’t change and remains good, and you can she why it shocked 19th century bourgeois France. Flaubert apparently identified quite closely with Emma Bovary and although he had a mistress himself, his relationship with her was more conventional. (Hence maybe the identification with Emma?)
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