Bouvard And Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
|
|
Sign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of Bouvard And Pecuchet.
discuss this book
friend reviews (0)
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
other reviews (showing 1-20 of 138)
Read in January, 2008
Best bros/worst bros, Flaubert split the pharmacist Homais from Bovary into two--Bouvard and Pécuchet--to have more surface area over which to pour his hatred of the educated middle class and all their pastimes and passions. Flaubert claimed to have read over 1,500 books in preparation for writing this one and it shows. B+P, two aging bachelors from Paris, move to the countryside on a financial windfall and indulge their desire to know and do, a desire that careens riduculously from electrocu...more
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
not actually fun to read and definitely missing the polish of his other, main-run works. but proves he had a sense of humor, and that madame bovary is actually as funny as i think it is, cf. the botched surgery on poor dude's clubfoot. and the shit with the hat at the beginning. charbovari!!!!!! the dictionary of received ideas, which is included at the back of the dalkey archive version of this book, is unfuckwithable at points. at other points it is like the shadow star map of priggish liberal...more
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
Read in January, 2003
A charming farce! The old hapless-buffoons type of story, a sort of demanding slapstick. How could everything go so wrong?! At once hilarious and utterly banal. It is the kind of book I would love to read when I am old and softened, resigning myself to happily complacent cynicism. Although, by that point, I may no longer have any use for it. But, in any event, the encyclopedic knowledge mobilized for the telling of such a silly tale is delightful. Thinking of it leaves me with the feeling of ha...more
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
Has a copy to sell/swap
—
Read in June, 2007
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
The immense research occasionally shows for the worse but Flaubert's display of schadenfreude is well worth it. Hysterical, and not just in the way nearly everything from the 19th century is moderately amusing.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
its one of those books that revels in the absurd...enjoyed it but 3/4 of the way through, you realise its just going to keep on going...relentlessly.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
I would have said a five--but 3/4 through I realized that they were just going to do more of the same again and again. It's a great book though.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
Like Mimesis-- absolutely crucial to how I see and read Everything. I don't even know what all these other books are.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
bookshelves:
to-read
I haven't read this translation yet. Shameful!
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
bookshelves:
currently-reading,
school
For Criticism & Theory II
Like this review?
yes
add a comment






















