Part of their exchange:
Were you trying to write a modern version of Madame Bovary?
I was as much interested in the differences between Sarah and Emma Bovary as I was in the similarities. On rereading Flaubert I was startled by how little time Madame Bovary spent interacting with her child. For most of the book the child is off with a wet nurse and doesn’t really interfere with her mother’s eventful love life. Sarah’s not the greatest mother in the world, but her child is the centre of her world. I found it especially amusing that she was stuck with her child on the night she was planning to run off with her lover.
Read the interview.
--Marshal Zeringue
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