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cambooks's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
msand3's review against another edition
2.0
1.5 stars. Dull, sentimental pap. Give me Zola. Give me Maupassant. Give Mérimée. Give me Balzac. Hell, I'll even take Stendhal over this. Give me vibrancy, color, and flair. This is nothing but a presentation of the ordinary. Not the type of ordinary that might be exalted as the groundwork of great literary insights, as the modernists achieved, but merely the banality of everyday commonness in theme and form. In other words: boring. The ending was so laughable that I wish it had been intended to be ironic, but according to Flaubert, he was serious. The affect is so forced and inauthentic that I find it hard to believe that so many readers (some great writers among them) view it as a triumph of sentiment.
milochispa's review against another edition
3.0
Cortito, se lee en cero coma. Lo leí para literatura universal y me gustó, no tanto como otros, pero no está nada mal.
evamaren's review against another edition
5.0
Now this is how you write a short story! Beautiful, moving and sublime story of the life of a simple maid in 19th century France. It's both funny and heartbreaking, and has that inscrutable quality that makes you keep thinking about it and its various layers of meaning, like a prism that radiates light in different colors depending on which way you turn it.