Simmons has pointed out, is purposely perfect throughout for reading aloud, in its lengths and pauses. The book I read appears fairly straightforward, simple. I'm a poor scholar who could not have recognized any of these facts if I'd not been hit over the head with them beforehand. Letters written by Flaubert at the time speak to his frustration and despair at ever achieving the perfection he was aiming for ("Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles."), but posterity has since brushed away those fears and Madame Bovary is found, over and over again, on lists of the best novels ever written in any language. The consensus is that Flaubert exhibited himself as a master of style in writing this novel, employing Realism in its detail of commoners' lives, his exacting word choice and descriptions.
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