‘It Hit Me Right In The Chest, It’s Still Hitting Me’: Elena Ferrante On The Most Terrible Sentence In ‘Madame Bovary’

“I certainly saw myself in Berthe Bovary, Emma and Charles’s daughter, and felt a jolt. I knew that I had my eyes on a page, I could see the words clearly, yet it seemed to me that I had approached my mother just as Berthe tried to approach Emma.”