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Gustave Flaubert

Bouvard und Pecuchet

Bouvard and Pécuchet, the report about two honest men on the hunt for world knowledge, is a furious parody of belief in science, which takes on completely new dimensions of meaning in the age of the Internet and the Web.

An inheritance enables the gaunt bachelor Bouvard and the short, corpulent widower Pécuchet to give up their unloved job as a copyist and retire to the country in order to pursue their interests entirely. They dabble in agriculture and horticulture, and finally in geology, history, literature, gymnastics, economics, theology and also as lovers. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, they throw themselves from one area to the next, disregarding patience and experience in their dangerous zeal and despairing in the face of contradictory doctrines.

Bouvard and Pécuchet, the two heroes in Flaubert's last novel, which is more relevant than ever more than 100 years after its publication, are caught in a dilemma: a mass of information obscures their view of the essentials.

In his new translation, Erich Wolfgang Skwara, himself an author, emphasizes the precision and comedy of Flaubert's style and the unrivaled irony of his characterization of time and people.
 

Price in antique stores for Edition-115 € 340.00

In the original slipcase

Die Andere Bibliothek Volume 222

uncensored edition

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