Bouvard & Pecuchet PA

In his own words,the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book inwhich I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvardand P#xC3;#xA9;cuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth andknowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each newattempt at learning about the world ends in disaster. In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, thisstory is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius cancompound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two DonQuixotes of Ideas. Apart from being a new translation, this editionincludes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.