What I learned from Madame Bovary.

I really thought I had read the novel before. I remember having to read it in one of my European Studies classes in University – I guess I missed that assignment! Although I was positive I had read it, I could not for the sake of me remember what it was about. Therefore, I decided to read it again – or rather, as it so happened, for the first time. After the first few pages I realized that it couldn’t have been that I read this, since nothing seemed familiar. I have a bad memory – but not that bad. After all the great things I have heard about the...