Is this a good book?

yes x2

blows the fuck out of shitty fucking victorian-era literature

FUCK YOU, CHARLES DICKENS, AND YOUR PENNY-A-WORD FUCKING SHIT

>>9042993
>>9042998

What is good about it?

>>9043006
It's a redpill on women.

>>9043015
it's actually the opposite

>>9043006
It's the only Book, wtf are you even asking...

nah

>>9043015
>>9043006
It's a red pill on provincial life

What is the best translation for Madame Bovary? What about The Three Musketeers?

>>9043591
please respond

>>9043591
I read Geoffrey Wall because I heard it was pretty accurate but I wish my French were better

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I like it

>>9043591
Lydia Davis

>>9042985
God tier.

>>9044105
>>9044117

Do either of you know if Steegmuller's is well done?

>>9043021
how so

reminder that if you don't read Flaubert in the original French, you are missing the most important part of his books and just pretending that they are good because smarter people told you that they are

>>9044173
That's false stfu. Flaubert est traduisible, he's not Céline.

Putain de francophones parfois...

>>9044150
That anon is just being provocative, but what I think he means is Madame Bovary is as much an analysis and critique of men as it is of women (from the haughty, petit-bourgeois philistine pharmacist to the husband who falls short not only of Emma's fantasy, but any sort of fulfilling, masculine role). Really, it's more of a critique of a lifestyle and way of thinking than any specific gender. Just like the retelling of MB, Yates' "Revolutionary Road," the novel is obviously more about suburbia and its effect on couples than "women and men" in general.

But even more importantly, it's just a damn good story, a "supreme fairy tale."

t. nabokov

>>9044173
So what is the most importabt part of the book?