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><br><br><i>Charles Bovary Country Doctor</i>&#160;is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century&#160;literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary&#160;the pathetic laughable cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary and the&#160;heartless&#160;creation of Gustave Flaubert.&#160;As a once-promising novelist who was tortured by the Nazis and survived a year in Auschwitz author Jean Am&#233;ry&#160;had a particular sympathy for&#160;the lived experience of vulnerability affliction and suffering&#160;and in this book&#151;available in English for the first time&#151;he&#160;asserts the moral claims&#160;of Dr. Bovary.&#160;What results is a moving paean to the&#160;humanity of Charles Bovary&#160;and to the supreme value of love.