Prete's review
Bouvard And Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
Prete's review
Bouvard And Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Prete's review
rating:
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 pieties? anyway, gustave f., congratulations, you were a shining star of the 19th century, you make me almost sort of want to learn french enough to read your books in their god-language.
