The Dictionary of Received Ideas (Syren)
by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translator)
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Read in March, 2008
I curse Jonathan for getting me into this! He sent me one of his cryptic messages one morning -- it was something about the deleterious effects of Tullamore Dew on the LeGare constitution and how he needed the hair of the dog and some Ambrose Bierce or Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas. So I hadn't heard of the latter so I went out and found Barzun's annotated translation and then on another day I was at the University Bookstore in Seattle and found the novel that it was originally part of...more
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Quite possibly one of my favourite books ever.
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