Beschreibung:
"I was truly fascinated by this book, which introduces a totally unexpected, though perfectly plausible and, in a sense, obvious, reading of "Madame Bovary." From now on, it will be impossible to ignore this work whenever a study of Flaubert's novel is undertaken."--Jean-Pierre Richard
Foreword / Frank Kermode viiPreface xiAcknowledgments xvCharbovari: An Essay on Madame Bovary 1Not Merely an Imbecile 1But He Is Fast Asleep! 13The Art of Irritating 18How to Avoid Gangrene 26Blindness 39A Matter of Fate 46A Wholly Fictitious Story 54Les Imbéciles! 59Insatiability 64Justin and Justine 67Oedipus and Orestes 72The Barbarous Scythian: An Essay on King Lear 81Neither Letters nor Words 81Commonplaces 82Cordelia the Favorite 84The Fool and Melancholy 93The Fool's Techniques 98The Coxcomb 101The Barbarous Scythian 106The Egg and the Two Crowns 108Noble Kent 112Dissonance 122The Two Monsters of Ingratitute 124Text or Performance? 129The Bastard 133Notes 137Index 159