If
you have ever been forced to read Madam Bovary, you probably hate Gustave
Flaubert. Madam Bovary is disgustingly simplistic in plot and simply boring in
nature, although beautifully written. The whole thing reads like an extremely
flowery episode of Real Housewives.
So, I
hate that book. But, my all time favorite non-fiction book is also by Flaubert.
Well, actually, it is his correspondence. Flaubert in Egypt is honestly one of
the most detailed and wonderful documentations of travel in Egypt in the early
twentieth century. Flaubert, a notorious troublemaker and womanizer, brings
with him the wit and charm that he apparently abandoned in the pursuit of Madam
Bovary.
I
have a mild obsession with Egypt and I have always wanted to visit there.
Whenever I get particularly wanderlust, I grab my copy of Flaubert in Egypt to
read. It’s almost like I’m already there.
Challenge
to my Readers:
Skip
Flaubert’s Madam Bovary and read something real.
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