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| Bouvard and Pécuchet
| | Gustave Flaubert
| In his own words,
the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in
which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvard
and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and
knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new
attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster.
In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this
story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can
compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don
Quixotes of Ideas. Apart from being a new translation, this edition
includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.
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