Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalities of intellectual life in France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature, and his pleasure in passionate friendship. The result is "a kind of encyclopedia made...
Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up t...
Der Autor zeigt auf, dass Rancé s Person ganz anders sein muss, als das übliche Bild von ihm. In Krailsheimers Buch liegt eine sorgfältige Recherche und Analyse vor. Imprimatur der Erzdiözese Köln.
Der Autor zeigt auf, dass Rancé s Person ganz anders sein muss, als das übliche Bild von ihm. In Krailsheimers Buch liegt eine sorgfältige Recherch...
