ITT: style without substance
Agreed, OP. If there isn't a BIG black cock getting that WHITE pussy then there is no substance ya feel me?
>>25025289This book is fine but feels like an undercooked Balzac novel with no punchline. Flaubert could never truly live up to Madame Bovary. Salammbô is very good for what it is, and Bouvard et Pécuchet might have been as well had it been finished, but neither really squares up to his first novel. And don't even mention that steaming pile of shit he spent most of his life trying to polish; that's just silly.
>>25025297Saint Anthony >feels like Balzac Erm not stylistically at all
>>25025295>plot of a book is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that the main female character isn't getting BBC regularly and has to make do with tiny white pecker instead
>>25025297You’re ignorant or just reading bad translations (most likely both).
It insists upon itself >>25025314Reading a translation is like a woman making do with white dick
>>25025307>>feels like BalzacUndercooked. With no punchline.Maybe it's closer to Maupassant.>>25025314Yes, of course. Any position you don't like must be the result of ignorance or faulty translations. Bravo!
>>25025289>style without substancePic related, worst book I've ever read in my life.It's like the quran if the quran pretended to be a mystery novel, just a loose collection of scenes that can barely be cobbled together to form some kind of narrative if you try really hard, and the narrative sucks. Imagine writing a mystery novel and not coming up with an ending.
>>25025336>punchline Anon...do you know what French Naturalism even is?
>>25025289Fuck this, give me substance without style
>>25025352https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer#Selected_bibliography
>>25025356Schopenhauer has way better prose than any German philosopher except maybe Nietzsche, but his substance just comes down to Spinoza's conatus
>>25025351I know it has very little to do with Flaubert. I sincerely hope you're not treating Naturalism and Realism as interchangeable terms.
>>25025352Greek Alexander Romance
>>25025352I’ll bite- Dune.
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>>25025857French Realism is very much the same as French Naturalism, it's just the latter is more narrowly defined to the stage but that attitude toward the stage was an extension of realism. Just like Chekhov's naturalist works for stage are a natural extension of his realist prose
>>25025352Hemingway i'd say
>>25025289That was his goal. Flaubert wanted to write a novel of pure style. Looks like he succeeded since you’re here seething.
>>25026364I’m not seething at all, I’m not even criticizing it, as I enjoyed it. It’s just all so vapid, makes me realize shitlibs have been around for hundreds of years
>>25025289>In a letter of 1852 Flaubert announced his desire to write 'a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the internal strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support; a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if such a thing is possible'. sad that he never made good on this. think of all the lack of substance we missed out on.
