Bouvard and Pecuchet

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Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?uchet is now considered one of Flaubert’s greatest masterpieces.

In Flaubert’s own words, the novel is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce .

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  • Author: Flaubert, Gustave
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Count: 328
  • Publish Date: November 30 2005
  • ISBN10: 1564783936
  • Language: English

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Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?uchet is now considered one of Flaubert’s greatest masterpieces.

In Flaubert’s own words, the novel is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile.” At the center of this book are Bouvard and P?uchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster.

In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas. This new translation also includes Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/30/2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.54w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781564783936
Language: English

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Binding

ISBN10

1564783936

ISBN13

9781564783936

Page Count

328

Published Date

November 30 2005

Language

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