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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: 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 Pécuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma Bovary and Frédéric Moreau...read more

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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880) was the son of a French surgeon. He studied law in Paris but soon returned to his hometown (Croisset, near Rouen) to devote his life to writing. He is the author of the immortal Madame Bovary (1856), a novel about the loves and frustrations of a romantic woman married to a provincial dullard. The book was criticized for immorality and prosecuted, but Flaubert won the case. Of the extremely well-realized heroine, he once remarked, "I am her." The novel is one of the greatest explorations of a female character by a male writer, in all of literature. Among Flaubert's other notable works are Salammbo (1863), a historical romance of ancient Carthage which influenced Robert E. Howard (the author of the Conan series), and The Temptation of Saint Anthony, which was translated into vivid, almost hallucinogenic English prose by Lafcadio Hearn. Flaubert also wrote plays, short stories, and the long satire Bouvard and Pecuchet. His life was outwardly uneventful, but full. He was heavily influenced by several women, including his mother, a mistress, and a woman ten years his senior with whom he fell in love as a young man. He travelled to North Africa and the Middle East in 1851. He received honors from the emperor Napoleon III. Among his friends and associates were Emile Zola, George Sand, and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. His work is characterized by criticism of small-town bourgois values, a curious tendency to romanticism, a fondness for the exotic, and a dedication to the then rising Realist movement, with its dedication to depicting life as it is, without judgment.

Par une chaude journée d’été, à Paris, deux hommes, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent et font connaissance. Ils découvrent que, non seulement ils exercent le même métier de copiste, mais qu’en plus ils ont les mêmes centres d’intérêts. S’ils le pouvaient, ils aimeraient vivre à la campagne. Un héritage fort opportun va leur permettre de changer de vie. Ils reprennent une ferme dans le Calvados, non loin de Caen et se lancent dans l’agriculture (agronomie, arboriculture, jardinage, conserverie, distillerie). Leur incapacité à comprendre va n’engendrer que des désastres. De la même manière, ils vont s’intéresser, dans l’ordre, aux sciences (chimie, anatomie, physiologie, médecine, nutrition, astronomie, zoologie, géologie), à l’archéologie (architecture, muséologie, religion celtique, antiquités, histoire, biographie), à la littérature (roman historique, théâtre, critique littéraire, grammaire, esthétique), à la politique, à l’amour, à la philosophie (gymnastique, spiritisme, magnétisme, logique), à la religion, à l’éducation (phrénologie, dessin, histoire naturelle, morale, musique, urbanisme) avec les mêmes résultats. Lassés de tant d’échecs, ils retournent à leur métier de copiste.

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Product Description: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain...read more

Product Description: Bouvard y Péuchet son almas gemelas reunidas por el azar. Una herencia y un vago deseo de retiro filosófico y del cultivo de la sabiduría harán que se abismen en diversas áreas del conocimiento humano, encontrando en ellas solo escepticismo y desazón...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Que nadie pregunte por las cartas de Louise Colet a Gustave Flaubert: la piadosa mano de Caroline Franklin-Grout, preocupada por mantener limpia la memoria de su ilustre tio, destruyo aquellas misivas, harto indecentes a su juicio...read more

A Simple Soul and Herodias

Product Description: Large format paper back for easy reading. Three short stories, The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller and A Simple Soul

Product Description: Excepcion. Decir que confirma la regla. No arriesgarse a explicar como () Libro. Cualquiera que sea, siempre demasiado largo () Republicanos. No todos los republicanos son ladrones, pero todos los ladrones son republicanos. Diccionario de los lugares comunes: proyecto literario (concebido en 1847 y publicado postumamente en 1911) en el cual Flaubert, mediante un agudo sentido del humor y una ironia incisiva, apelando a un caudal de citas famosas, frases hechas y pruebas (que demuestran lo contrario), despliega una critica intensa a la mediocridad burguesa de su tiempo (y quizas del nuestro)...read more

Product Description: Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas―an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France―is as relevant today as ever. Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the “right thinking” swaddle their minds...read more

Product Description: Living in today's multi-speed world is so exasperatingly in-tense for so many people that a great majority of them find solace in routine and automatism. The cliché has become not only a conscious strategy to conform, but a response to anxiety and despair...read more