Gustave Flaubert

France

Where in Bolaño: 2666 II, the pharmacist's preferences
Why read them: A Simple Heart vs Bouvard and Pécuchet: the perfect miniature against the torrential failure.
Start with: Madame Bovary (1857), read free on Project Gutenberg

Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881, in play), read free on Project Gutenberg