They would say that Flaubert's prose style is the essence of his art, and too near perfection to survive being translated.
On a shelf in the pharmacist's shop nearby is a bottle of … but I won't say how it comes out, because some of you might not yet have read the book. The loan shark closes in, Leon backs out, and Emma has only one way to go. But the extravagance of her double life, financed by money stolen from Charles, gets her into ruinous debt. Nursed back to health by the unsuspecting Charles, she hooks up again with Leon. Sharing no such plans, Rodolphe dumps her. But with an upmarket louse called Rodolphe she finds sexual fulfillment and plans a future. Longing for excitement and a classier way of life, she falls for a charming poseur called Leon. Stuck with him in the depths of nowhere, Emma gradually realizes that she has married a chump. It's a simple job but it gets him a reputation for competence. He wins the right to her hand after setting her father's broken leg. The beautiful Emma Rouault is his second wife. In no time he is a medical student, and then a doctor. Young Charles Bovary clumps into school to be laughed at by the other kids for his awkwardness. The plot fairly belts along from the first page. Everyone would read it, given a free taste. Other comparably great and famous novels aren't, but it is. The first thing to say about Madame Bovary is that it's a terrific story.
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