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Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and Pecuchet is now considered to be one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces. 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 Pecuchet, 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Bouvard and Pecuchet
• Author: Gustave Flaubert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781564783936
• ISBN: 1564783936
• ID: 04230933
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 462 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 141 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2005

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