Bouvard and Pécuchet a Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

Bouvard and Pécuchet a Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

Gustave Flaubert

544 pages first pub 1881 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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