people told me madame bovary was maybe the best novel ever written. i'm about halfway through and i get the feeling this book is for people who enjoy the process of reading, not who want to hear something worth hearing. its reading for readings sake. the descriptions are beautiful and the prose flows off the page but thats all there is. i honestly think this kind of reading is perverse, its enjoying the process instead of the outcome. its treating the means as an end. there is nothing to be gained from reading this. its a book for a reader who likes people so much more than ideas they would rather use the pages to just be in a world with some characters for a bit. its chick lit at its ideological purest. nothing like Melville or Mishima
oh look, another pleb who got filtered and thinks he has pointed out the emperor has no clothes
>>25354952what value does the book have then?
>>25354951>prose flows off the page but that's all there isProse is always all there is in literature. Did you think we were on /tv/ or something?>there is nothing to be gained from reading thisNGMI if you think of literature in terms of "what is to be gained"
>>25354973teaches naive teens about slutdom
>>25354951That's what a novel is, anon.
>>25354952Fpbp
>>25354973It masterfully shows how harmful worldly literature can be? It illustrates not only through Emma, but through every single character how perverse human nature can be? Pay more attention to what you're reading, every character in the book is a piece of shit, some get what they deserve, some are rewarded for being pieces of shit, and the only innocent character in the entire story has the worst ending possible. It throws the bleakness of life into the reader's face. If you don't become depressed after reading Madame Bovary and identifying its characters with people you know in real life you haven't read it properly.
>>25354951>its a book for a reader who likes people so much more than ideasYes, these are called "adults."
>>25354951I bought this book, hardcover, pink and purple edition, because of this thread.
>>25354951Madame Bovary is basically:TL,DR: Stop larping, you stupid cuntAlso, read Flaubert's Memoirs of a Madman, which basically serves as a proto Madame Bovary in the form of a semi-fictionalized memoir.
>>25354951So what do you like about Melville? Someone told you he was the greatest, I suppose?
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