Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I feel so frustrated when I read this book. A lot of the things that come about in this novel are completely random. I don't really understand, actually I completely don't understand why he decides to write like this. It makes me wonder if he writes just what comes to mind and maybe that's how his brain works but it's confusing to me because I'm on a much different level than he is and obviously we don't have the same thought process. Flaubert's Parrot, to me, is all over the place, although it does make some connections such as those to Madame Bovary but still I feel the same way.

1 comment:

David Lavender said...

I'm interested in your term "thought processes". Maybe this book isn't really about anything other than trying to come up with a different intellectual approach to what we blithely call "life"--one in which the standard, rational response of seeking out connections between disparate ideas and events is invited, then undermined.