DoubleX Audio Book Club: Lydia Davis’ Translation of Madame Bovary
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🗓️ 30 December 2010
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:30.8 | Hello and welcome to our Double X Audio Book Club. |
| 0:33.6 | Today we are going to discuss the new translation of Madame Bovary by Lydia Davis, originally |
| 0:38.8 | written in 1857 by Gustave Flaubert. We will say, happy New Year to you all, or Bon Annay, as Gustave Flaubert would say. I'm here. This is Hannah Rosen. I am the editor of Double X, and I'm joined here today in the Washington studio with Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker. Hi, Margaret. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi there. |
| 0:53.6 | And we have joining us in New Haven, Emily Bazelon, the other editor of Double X. |
| 0:57.3 | Hi. |
| 0:57.7 | Bonjour. |
| 0:58.2 | We have... here today in the Washington studio with Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker. Hi, Margaret. Hi there. And we have joining us in New Haven, Emily Bazelon, the other editor of Double X. Hi. |
| 0:57.7 | Bonjour. We have to make French jokes throughout these podcast. So, Madam Bovary, all of you might remember this from college. If you don't remember it, you should reread it. It's really an amazing experience to reread it. I had utterly forgotten how depressing the depressing the book is. She's |
| 1:13.5 | described in the jacket copy as the original Desperate Housewife. And while that's a rather crass |
| 1:18.3 | description, I think it's kind of perfect. Yes, it's actually, it's actually not inaccurate, |
| 1:22.4 | both in the way that Floubert kind of coldly anthropologizes her. He sort of coldly describes her and in the |
| 1:29.5 | way we are all welcomed to join in her misery. The translation has stirred a little literary |
| 1:35.5 | kerfawful about whether or not we are too hard on Madame Bovary. And so we will talk a little |
| 1:41.2 | bit about that. But I will start before she even becomes Madam Bovary, |
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