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Bouvard and Pécuchet
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Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet
New York: New Directions, 1954.
First printing.
Flaubert's last novel was published at the author's death, in 1880, in an unrevised state, having consumed the last eight years of his life.
Looking back to Tristram Shandy and forward to modernist works like Ulysses, Flaubert parodies the desire to construct an encyclopedia of all knowledge.
His two protagonists attempt to collect, catalog and embrace every aspect of human scholarship, an impossible task, told with such sympathy that we become swept up in their wandering enthusiasms and endless list-making.
Hardcover, in very good condition, in a jacket with chipping to top edge.