Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

 

Years since I read this. Struck anew by Flaubert's chiseled detailed style. 

Re-reading in honor of the late great Northwestern Professor Paul C. Edwards, who died on October 15 at the age of 75, of alcoholism and grief. He staged this in the mid-1980s with Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, which I was a member of in its first formative lackluster year. I left group just in time for them to successfully mount BOVARY.

Salve, magister!