Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
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An absurd and amusing fiction of two really stupid men, doing really stupid things for the amusement of the sensible mind, from an author whose penchant is desperation and depression in his other books. Have a little background in the France of late 1700's to early 1800's before reading.
Le disctionairre des idees recoit is a nice little tome, assembled (I think) post-mortem, of notes that Flaubert took upon the workings of language. Better read in French, but know much about the French languag...more
Le disctionairre des idees recoit is a nice little tome, assembled (I think) post-mortem, of notes that Flaubert took upon the workings of language. Better read in French, but know much about the French languag...more
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Read in March, 2008
This is an unfinished novel but I don't think that is going to matter. It is a picaresque romp through the buffoonery of the bourgois mind of 19th cent. France -- all the prejudices and obedience to blind authorities. These two clerks meet and become fast friends. One of them inherits a fortune and then they set out to make it in various professions. They invariably fail due to their insistence on remaining well-read but stubbornly ignorant. This is a very funny book.
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Some nincompoops try hard at life.
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