Name: A Simple Heart
Rating: 3.666666666666667 (15 reviews)
ISBN: 9780811213189

Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Heart moved me to tears.--Russell Baker

A Simple Heart

Levi-Mae 

‘She was, in her own words, ‘all empty inside’.’

Flaubert's most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.

Andrew John Kinney

3.4 stars. The life story of a simple, good-hearted, hard-working young woman, jilted by a potential husband, who becomes a servant for an upper-class French family in the early 1800's. Felicite' suffers a number of losses through her life, but remains completely loyal to the lady of the house, Mme. Aubain. This is a short, accessible piece of realist fiction from Flaubert, for those of us who have tried and failed to complete Madame Bovary, but would like to try a bit more of Flaubert. Having gotten used to Flaubert's rhythms in this short novel, I may go back to Bovary and finish it.

She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!'

A Simple Heart

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