Curt's review
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
what about cockfighting?
Well, if you like Hemingway more than Flaubert...
Curt's review
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Curt's review
rating:
Flaubert, Flaubert, Flaubert. (I actually have no real issue with Flaubert, I just enjoy beginning my ranting reviews pedantically.)
This is a decent younger sibling to his classic, Madame Bovary. It features one of the two nineteenth century protaganists I'd most like to box on the ears and tell them to get a clue, Frederic Moreau. The other being Prince Myshkin of The Idiot which, incidentally, was published the year before Sentimental Education. Weird.
Whenever I read Flaubert, I'm enthralled with his crisp tone, but it seems wasted on novels of society and internal conflict. Wasted is probably too strong a word. I would just love to read a gritty Flaubert action sequence. Something like Hemingway's The Undefeated. Unfortunately one thing that nineteenth century France sorely lacked was bullfighting.
Which I guess means that the moral of Sentimental Education is that we all could use a little more bullfighting.
This is a decent younger sibling to his classic, Madame Bovary. It features one of the two nineteenth century protaganists I'd most like to box on the ears and tell them to get a clue, Frederic Moreau. The other being Prince Myshkin of The Idiot which, incidentally, was published the year before Sentimental Education. Weird.
Whenever I read Flaubert, I'm enthralled with his crisp tone, but it seems wasted on novels of society and internal conflict. Wasted is probably too strong a word. I would just love to read a gritty Flaubert action sequence. Something like Hemingway's The Undefeated. Unfortunately one thing that nineteenth century France sorely lacked was bullfighting.
Which I guess means that the moral of Sentimental Education is that we all could use a little more bullfighting.
what about cockfighting?
Well, if you like Hemingway more than Flaubert...
