Flaubert said it would be better to know a few books very well

>>9135785

None and Flaubert was wrong, as usual.

>>9135787
Why do you think that?

>>9135785
Again with this recollection meme. Literature is not textbooks to be recalled accurately and completely. One reads for the way literature transforms oneself, not for the information or "facts" therein. My favourite analogy for this is climbing a mountain or walking on a beach or seeing any other interesting, beautiful place: you should enjoy the way this place makes you feel, not try to remember exactly where each landmark or natural feature is placed and what it looked like. If you do have that kind of memory good for you, but don't lose sight of the former for the sake of the latter.

>>9135785
I think he's right in the sense that there are so few books that actually qualify as good literature.
>Complete Works of Shakespeare
>Ulysses
>War and Peace
>Don Quixote

If you're really honest with yourself, you do look down on almost all other literature. Almost to the point where it's a waste of time to read something else.

>>9135785

ayy fuck Flaubert.

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

>>9136276
Dis