Charles Bovary Country Doctor

<b>Fans of Flaubert's <i>Madame Bovary </i>will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures Charles Bovary. Part fiction part philosophy <i>Charles Bovary Country Doctor</i> is also a book about love.</b> <p/><i>Charles Bovary Country Doctor</i> 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 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.