Is this a good book?

Is this a good book?

yes

yes x2

blows the fuck out of shitty fucking victorian-era literature

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

What is good about it?

It's a redpill on women.

it's actually the opposite

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

nah

It's a red pill on provincial life

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

please respond

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

I like it

Lydia Davis

God tier.

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

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

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

Putain de francophones parfois...

That user 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

So what is the most importabt part of the book?