![]() Permit me to inscribe your name at the head of this book, and above its dedication for it is to you, before all, that I owe its publication. Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly, and Former Minister of the Interior So, I think the pace is quite an important element of the story: perhaps it is the main theme of the story itself.Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ![]() ![]() And the same thing when the soldier - her first lover - abandons her: The slow pace - her life, in essence, her ennui (reflected in the story of Emma Bovary)- changes when she meets him: secret meetings, the gossip of the town, the suspense of her clandestine rendez-vous - these are in direct contrast to that pace and when he leaves her out of his sense of feeling trapped by her expectations - this broke my heart the first time I read it and even this time, while re-reading, I was again very sad - I felt such pity - and this, too, contrasted with the slow pace of the prose style, and I suddenly wanted to read the entire novel that very night, to know more of what her mind was going through, her thoughts, her sense of desperation. ![]() Its pace is slow in the beginning, but the revelations - the drama - is worth waiting for, and it kind of makes the slow pace of the beginning of the book work: for example, Emma's relationship to her child: when we see how cold she is towards the child, and the way this - I would call it indifference - is revealed: it is (at least to me) shocking - and that slow pace adds to this shock. Judith wrote: "I know it's a classic, but I'm not seeing why" ![]()
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