There are two kinds of poor writer smugflourishes that I don’t like:1. The aimless simile. “Life is like a cat. You’ve got two of them and it has fur on the outside! Badum-PSH” I’ve got some constructive criticism, a great way to improve those is delete them and come up with something original.2. Us...
In Flaubert's novel, domestic mediocrity drives his heroine to 'dreams of luxury'. The novels centers on the heroine's disillusionment at not having a higher status in society and being trapped in an unsophisticated provincial town. Emma Bovary rebels but never strives to separate herself from socie...
Jako se dugo nije desilo da me neka knjiga natera da se ljutim na junaka/junakinju. Flober je majstor, uvlači vas u svoj svet, pa ćete, hteli to sebi da priznate ili ne, verovatno gutati ovu knjigu. Kod mene je zaslužila visoku ocenu, uprkos sentimentalnosti i tematici kakvu ne obožavam preterano, z...
I started this book a year ago. I read it with some friends. One finished it, the other didnt. I wanted to like this book, I really did. I love literature, and it seemed like a great story. I had lots of qualms with this book. First of all, it's ok if the protagonist is villian-like, or we despise h...
Nutshell: bucolic twerp, well read in romance novels, gets bored with bourgeois husband, has affairs, bankrupts estate, dies.A tremendous narrative. Only rhetorical default is the first word, We (1), first-person narration, which nevertheless disappears very soon in favor of third-person omniscien...
Reading (and re-reading) the 10 best novels of the 19th century.Part 2: Madame BovaryThis is another book that I moaned and complained through (see Part 1: Anna Karenina), and indeed for many of the same reasons. The burgeoning bourgeois culture of mid 19th century France is about as unrelateable to...
Maupassant is an elegant writer (or else the translator is), and Bel-Ami reads beautifully. It's engaging, witty, and yes, Duroy is an absolute bastard, a vile, reprehensible, self-serving jerk of the type you simultaneously hate and respect for how much sheer skill he has at being the bastard that...
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