Have you ever read an interesting book, and then wished that you could share your ideas with others who have read the same book? Join our Book Club and meet interested folks who love to read good books. The IWCC Book Club meets the second Monday of each month at 3:00 pm in the upstairs lounge. Our group of men and women choose books to discuss from suggestions from our Book Club Members. Our first meeting of the season will be on November 9th to discuss Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that leads to ruin and self destruction.Along with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Flaubert's tragic novel is considered a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman torn between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to detail, Madame Bovary exposes the emptiness of one woman's bourgeois existence and her failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex and material objects. Her thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment.For those inclined to "read and view" this novel has had several film adaptations. Very nearly too faithful to Flauber'ts classic is 1991's Madame Bovary, adapted and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film is available from the Riverside County Library System.
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