1923 Bouvard et Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert Satiric Novel Realism FR Literature
Bouvard et Pécuchet Oeuvre Posthume Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard and Pecuchet) – In French language.
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Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1923.
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Pp: |8| + 400 + |4| Size: 18 x 12 cm.
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Bouvard et Pécuchet is unfinished satirical novel of one of the most influential writers in French Literature History, Gustave Flaubert. Published one year after writer’s death, it represents one of the most ambitious Flaubert’s works. Novel details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament. They meet one hot summer day in 1838. by the canal Saint-Martin and form an instant, symbiotic friendship. When Bouvard inherits a sizable fortune, the two decide to move to the countryside. They find a 94-acre (380,000 m2) property near the town of Chavignolles in Normandy, between Caen and Falaise, and 100 miles (160 km) west of Rouen. Their search for intellectual stimulation leads them, over the course of years, to flounder through almost every branch of knowledge.
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Binding: Original quarter leather binding. Giltstamped spine cover, minor signs of ware along the edges of the panes.. Condition: Clean copy overall.
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For condition and details see the scans.
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