Bouvard and Pecuchet

Includes Flaubert's Dictionary of received ideas.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/30/2005
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.54w x 1.09d
ISBN13: 9781564783936
ISBN10: 1564783936
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author

Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) is considered to be one of the most important French novelists of the nineteenth century. He's most well-known for his novel "Madame Bovary," and for his desire to write "a book about nothing," a novel in which all external elements, especially the presence of the author, have been eliminated, leaving nothing but style itself.

Often considered a member of the naturalist school, Flaubert despised categorizations of this sort, and in novels like "Bouvard and Pecuchet" demonstrates the inaptness of this label. In addition to these two novels, he is also the author of "A Sentimental Education," "Salambo," "Three Tales," and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony."