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Additional authors

1. Earp, T. W. (Thomas Wade), 1892-1958
2. Stonier, G. W. (George Walter), 1903-1985
3. Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
4. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
5. Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998
6. New Directions Publishing, publisher
7. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints

Description

1. xxxvii, 347 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. Considered Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece, Bouvard and Pecuchet opens with two middle-aged copy-clerks who become fast friends after meeting on a city bench and discovering their shared habit of writing their names in their hats: "I should say so! Someone could walk off with mine at the office!" When a small inheritance allows Bouvard and Pecuchet to retire early and move to the country, they use their newfound leisure time to satisfy their curiosity about all the things they'd been too busy to study in the city. Flaubert shows his unlikely protagonists diving disastrously into everything from farming and politics to literature and love, and coming up empty-handed each time - until, finally, their obsessive pursuit of knowledge becomes an end in itself. Bouvard and Pecuchet unravels the novel's realist tradition, and sets the stage for the modernist innovations of Kafka, Joyce, and Beckett.

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. Stupidity > Fiction
3. Retirees > France > Fiction
4. French fiction > 19th century
5. French wit and humor
6. Stupidity
7. Retirees
8. Manners and customs
9. French fiction
10. France > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
11. France

Genre/Form

1. Humorous fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1954.
4. Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.

Contents

1. Introduction by Lionel Trilling -- Bouvard and Pécuchet -- Flaubert's Dictionary of accepted ideas.

Call number

1. Berg Coll 22-874

Note

1. "A New Directions book" -- title page.
2. "[transcribe the colophon]" -- colophon.

Indexed in (note)

1. Carruth, H. New Directions reader
2. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Additional formats (note)

1. Also issued online.

Binding (note)

1. bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston.

Author

1. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880, author.

Title

1. Bouvard and Pécuchet / by Gustave Flaubert ; translated by T.W. Earp and G.W. Stonier ; with an introduction by Lionel Trilling.

Publisher

1. Norfolk, Connecticut : James Laughlin, [1954]

Copyright date

1. ©1954

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Additional formats

1. Also issued online.

Indexed in:

1. Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 226
2. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 36

Binding

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-874 bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-874 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Added author

1. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Bouvard et Pécuchet. English.
2. Earp, T. W. (Thomas Wade), 1892-1958, translator.
3. Stonier, G. W. (George Walter), 1903-1985, translator.
4. Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975, writer of introduction.
5. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
6. Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998, cover designer, bookjacket designer.
7. New Directions Publishing, publisher.
8. Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
9. Javitch, Daniel, donor.
10. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
11. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

LCCN

1. 54008413

Research call number

1. Berg Coll 22-874