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I think everyone forgets that when Rodolphe first tries to seduce Emma with his byronic romanticism bullshit, she's like 'ew'

To be honest, I always forget just how boring this book can be. It's a pleasure to mull over and dissect, but a slog to read real-time.

Emma should knock Rodolphe out and run away

The fact that Emma Bovary declares that her psycho-physical calcification only began after marriage is genuinely so subversive to the marriage law at the time. I'm genuinely not surprised Flaubert was taken to trial for the book.

"Elle souhaitait à la fois mourir et habiter Paris." Girl, same.

Everyone's mad at Emma, but we all know that she has the right to hate Charles's ass

The more times I read this novel, the more I realize this is a novel of changing forms and a satire of the Bildungsroman