{"product_id":"bouvard-and-pecuchet-9781564783936","title":"Bouvard and Pecuchet","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlthough unfinished during his lifetime, \u003ci\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/i\u003e is now considered one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas. This new translation also includes Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Received Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e (1821-1880) was one of the most important writers of the 19th century, the inventor of the contemporary short story, and the direct forerunner of modernist literature. He, more than any other single figure, is the creator of modern prose: his terse, hard-edged style reveals character, plot, and theme not by authorial exposition, but by extreme precisions of diction, voice, and detail. Joyce explicitly modeled himself on Flaubert; Pound called him \"Papa Gustave\"; and the critic James Wood wrote, \"Novelists should thank Flaubert the way poets thank spring; it all begins again with him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Polizzotti is a writer and translator from the french whose books include the collaborative novel \u003ci\u003eS.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSympathy for the Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, The Nation, Partisan Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He has translated works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and Jean Echenoz. He currently directs the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617415205138,"sku":"9781564783936","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdde2292-96eb-42d7-bf8b-c308b6c59e98.jpg?v=1732518205","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bouvard-and-pecuchet-9781564783936","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}