{"product_id":"bouvard-and-pecuchet-with-the-dictionary-of-received-ideas-paperback","title":"Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eA. J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eA. J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBouvard and P cuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalities of intellectual life in France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature, and his pleasure in passionate friendship. The result is \"a kind of encyclopedia made into farce,\" wholly grotesque and wholly original, in the spirit of \u003ci\u003eGargantua and Pantagruel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The form of his work was marked by intense aesthetic scrupulousness and passionate pursuit of le mot juste; its content alternately reflected scorn for French bourgeois society and a romantic taste for exotic historical subject matter. The success of \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for \"immorality\"; \u003cb\u003eSalammbô\u003c\/b\u003e (1862) and \u003cb\u003eThe Sentimental Education\u003c\/b\u003e (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of \u003cb\u003eThree Tales\u003c\/b\u003e (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his reputation was supreme. His circle of friends included Turgenev and the Goncourt brothers, while the young Guy de Maupassant underwent an arduous literary apprenticeship under his direction. Increasing personal isolation and financial insecurity troubled his last years. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric \u003cb\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/b\u003e, left unfinished at his death in 1880. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. A.J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are \u003cb\u003eStudies in Self-Interest \u003c\/b\u003e(1963), \u003cb\u003eRabelais and the Franciscans \u003c\/b\u003e(1965), \u003cb\u003eThree Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e (1966), \u003cb\u003eRabelais (1967)\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eA. J. de Rancé, Abbot of La Trappe\u003c\/b\u003e (1974), \u003cb\u003ePascal\u003c\/b\u003e (1980), \u003cb\u003eConversion\u003c\/b\u003e (1980), \u003cb\u003e Letters of A. J. de Rancé\u003c\/b\u003e (1984), \u003cb\u003eRancé and the Trappist Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e (1985) and \u003cb\u003eCorrespondance de Rancé\u003c\/b\u003e (1993). He has also translated Flaubert's \u003cb\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSalammbo\u003c\/b\u003e and Pascal's \u003cb\u003eThe Provincial Letters\u003c\/b\u003e for the Penguin Classics.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 7.88 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 1976\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762736202016,"sku":"9780140443202","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4792ce515bb2974fbbc6cdbd1aec7ea2.webp?v=1780224724","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bouvard-and-pecuchet-with-the-dictionary-of-received-ideas-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}