Description
Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?uchet is now considered one of Flauberts greatest masterpieces.
In Flauberts 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 Flauberts 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
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