Bibliograph

Bouvard and Pécuchet, the last novel of Gustave Flaubert, in a new translation from the French & with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti ; and featuring a preface by Raymond Queneau

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Bouvard and Pécuchet, the last novel of Gustave Flaubert, in a new translation from the French & with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti ; and featuring a preface by Raymond Queneau

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Bouvard and Pécuchet

Responsibility statement

in a new translation from the French & with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti ; and featuring a preface by Raymond Queneau

Sub title

the last novel of Gustave Flaubert

Summary

Two middle-aged copy-clerks become fast friends after meeting on a city bench and discovering their shared habit of writing their names in their hats: "I should say so! Someone could walk off with mine at the office!" When a small inheritance allows Bouvard and Pecuchet to retire early and move to the country, they use their newfound leisure time to satisfy their curiosity about all the things they'd been too busy to study in the city, diving disastrously into everything from farming and politics to literature and love, and coming up empty-handed each time, until, finally, their obsessive pursuit of knowledge becomes an end in itself

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