Bouvard and Pécuchet

Author(s)

• Flaubert, Gustave
• Krailsheimer, A. J.

Bibliographic Information

Bouvard and Pécuchet

Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by A.J. Krailsheimer

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1976

Other Title

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Note

Translation of: Bouvard et Pécuchet

Includes Flaubert's Dictionary of received ideas

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Bouvard and Pecuchet 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 France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature, and his pleasure in passionate friendship. The result is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce," wholly grotesque and wholly original, in the spirit of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote or Ulysses.

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Details

• NCID: BA07832887
• ISBN:
  • 0140443207
• LCCN: 76371814
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth ; Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: 329 p.
• Size: 18 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PZ3.F618
  • LCC : PQ2246
  • DC : 843/.8
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646