ISBN Charles Bovary, Country Doctor book English Paperback 176 pages

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-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and the heartless creation of Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz, author Jean Améry had a particular sympathy for the lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering, and in this book—available in English for the first time—he asserts the moral claims of Dr. Bovary. What results is a moving paean to the humanity of Charles Bovary and to the supreme value of love.