Bouvard and Pecuchet

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Cover of the book Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau, Dalkey Archive Press
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Author: Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau ISBN: 9781564786999
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication: November 30, 2005
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Language: English
Author: Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau
ISBN: 9781564786999
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication: November 30, 2005
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
In his 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 Pécuchet, 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. Apart from being a new translation, this edition includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.

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In his 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 Pécuchet, 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. Apart from being a new translation, this edition includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.

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