Madame Bovary is one of the best books I have ever read. Where

>>9108111
Flobert Bovson

You go to a library and get some more Flaubert.

>>9108111

Sentimental Education. Be warned. Frederic Moreau is one of the most insufferable characters of all literature.

>>9108111
You read Temptation of St. Antony and are completely shocked and confused for a few years

>>9108111
Do you even L'Éducation Sentimentale bro?

>>9108111
L'éducation sentimentale : great book, a classic, not a page turner and not for kiddies who lack attention. I guess you'll enjoy it if you liked Madame Bovary.

Short stories "Trois contes" : good too, probably not as great as Madame Bovary. Read them if you're looking for something easier.

Bouvard et Pécuchet : very different and very funny. Two friends who are losers wanna... what do they want ? Hard to tell. They just wanna make something. Become someone, become experts in anything. Live ? - Anyway, they remain losers and get bored or fail at everything they try. It's a comedy, sort of. Very smart one. Not a monument like Madame Bovary, but great if you wanna laugh at the protagonists.

>>9110153
Madame Bovary, L'Éducation Sentimentale, Un Coeur Simple (in Trois Contes), Salammbo are all essentials.

>>9111151
Les Correspondances, also.

>>9111151
is there a flowchart for him?

>>9108111
What is essential in art remains its perfection of existence, its production of perfection and plenitude; art is essentially affirmation, blessing, deification of existence -- What does a pessimistic art signify? Is it not a contradictio? -- Yes. -- Schopenhauer is wrong when he says that certain works of art serve pessimism. Tragedy does not teach "resignation" -- To represent terrible and questionable things is in itself an instinct for power and magnificence in an artist: he does not fear them -- There is no such thing as pessimistic art -- Art affirms. Job affirms. -- But Zola? But the Goncourts? Flaubert? -- The things they display are ugly: but that they display them comes from their pleasure in the ugly -- It's no good! If you think otherwise, you're deceiving yourselves.

>>9108530
Well, I just ordered this and I've never read anything else by Flaubert.

Bovary > Salammbô > L'éducation sentimentale >Trois Contes

>>9108111
why is /lit/ so retarded about "where to start with x"?

especially if you already know you like him, just start in chronological order

same thing goes for any other author if possible

If you wanted to make a thread to say that you finished Madame Bovary just cut to the chase and do that instead