Charles Bovary, Country Doctor

<p><strong>Fans of Flaubert's <em>Madame Bovary </em>will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, <em>Charles Bovary, Country Doctor</em> is also a book about love.</strong><br /><br /><em>Charles Bovary, Country Doctor</em> 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 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 Am&eacute;ry had a particular sympathy for the lived experience of vulnerability, affliction, and suffering, and in this book&mdash;available in English for the first time&mdash;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.</p>