#she's dumb! she's trashy and vulgar af! flaubert is making fun of her!

[rosepompadour]

JENNIFER JONES in MADAME BOVARY (1949)

Emma feeds on mediocre books, and therefore her dissatisfactions are never truly tragic, just grotesque. She is not to be pitied but derided. She is worthy of condemantion for her vulgar nature, for her cold and self-centered pursuit of a kind of pleasure that not even she understands, for her stupid attachment to the most inane of literary myths, for her dime-store sentimentalism. Few readers take time to look more closely at Emma and at how her author judges her, how many indignities he heaps upon her — so many that she is left without a single good quality, not one. - Dacia Maraini, Searching for Emma

#madame bovary #jennifer jones #the silver screen #* #god i just love it when people GET THINGS #i will forever love madame bovary because it's the most perfectly written book i know #but it's truly astounding how many people think emma is some kind of icon #she's dumb! she's trashy and vulgar af! flaubert is making fun of her! #girlbloggers: i can't read suddenly i don't know /mariah voice