Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880

Publication

• Norfolk, Connecticut : James Laughlin, [1954]
• ©1954

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

xxxvii, 347 pages; 21 cm

Summary

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

• 1800-1899
• Stupidity > Fiction
• Retirees > France > Fiction
• French fiction > 19th century
• French wit and humor
• Stupidity
• Retirees
• Manners and customs
• French fiction
• France > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
• France

Genre/Form

• Humorous fiction.
• Fiction.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1954.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.

Note

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

Indexed In (note)

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

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Binding (note)

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

Contents

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

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-874

LCCN

54008413

OCLC

2847130

Author

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Norfolk, Connecticut : James Laughlin, [1954]

Copyright Date

©1954

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 226

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 36

Binding

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

Local Note

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

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Bouvard et Pécuchet. English.

Earp, T. W. (Thomas Wade), 1892-1958, translator.

Stonier, G. W. (George Walter), 1903-1985, translator.

Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975, writer of introduction.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-874