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Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P cuchet is now considered one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces.

In Flaubert's own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center... Read Full Overview

Par un chaud dimanche d' t , pr s du canal Saint-Martin, sur le boulevard Bourdon, Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et P cuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aper oivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'id e d' crire leur nom dans leur chapeau:... Read Full Overview

Gustave Flaubert was one of the 19th century's most famous authors. A French novelist, Flaubert led the way for the Realism literary movement in that country at a time that it was sweeping across Europe and the United States, and works like Madame Bovary are still wildly popular... Read Full Overview

Bouvard et P cuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, Fran ois Denys Bartholom e Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille P cuchet, 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,... Read Full Overview

Extrait : Comme il faisait une chaleur de 33 degr?s, le boulevard Bourdon se trouvait absolument d?sert. Plus bas, le canal Saint-Martin, ferm? par les deux ?cluses, ?talait en ligne droite son eau couleur d'encre. Il y avait au milieu un bateau plein de bois, et sur la berge... Read Full Overview

Nowhere do Flaubert's explorations of the relation of signs to the objects they signify reach a more thorough study than in this work. Bouvard and P cuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma... Read Full Overview

Par une chaude journ e d' t , Paris, deux hommes, Bouvard et P cuchet, se rencontrent et font connaissance. Ils d couvrent que, non seulement ils exercent le m me m tier (copiste), mais en plus ils ont les m mes centres d'int r ts. S'ils le pouvaient, ils aimeraient vivre ... Read Full Overview

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 - 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection,... Read Full Overview

The book "" Bouvard and P?cuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1 "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present... Read Full Overview

Nowhere do Flaubert's explorations of the relation of signs to the objects they signify reach a more thorough study than in this work. Bouvard and P?cuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma... Read Full Overview

Par un chaud dimanche d' t , pr s du canal Saint-Martin, sur le boulevard Bourdon, Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et P cuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aper oivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'id e d' crire leur nom dans leur chapeau:... Read Full Overview

The book is widely read as a precursor to modern theories on semiotics and postmodernism. The relentless failure of Bouvard and P cuchet to learn anything from their adventures raises the question of what is knowable. Whenever they achieve some small measure of success (a rare... Read Full Overview

Bouvard et P cuchet, roman incontournable de Gustave Flaubert, a t publi pour la premi re fois en France en 1910.