Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gustave Flaubert, A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator), A. J. Krailsheimer (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsPublish date:1976-06-24Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140443202ISBN-10:140443207UPC:9780140443202Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.88 x 5.10 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCSMDQHV1T
Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas
Bouvard and P cuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalities of intellectual life in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140443202ISBN-10:140443207UPC:9780140443202Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.88 x 5.10 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCSMDQHV1T
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was...
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
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