- French wit and humor, Esprit et humour français, Humor, Wisdom
An English translation of "Dictionnaire des idées reçues", a postumous publication of Flaubert's collection of overheard comments, "the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea", "absurdities", "half-truths, and social lies." "[A] very contemporary self-portrait of the middle-class philistine, a species as much alive today as when Flaubert railed against him"--P. 4. of cover.
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Comic, character-led, cool and spare.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
- First published
- 1913
- Pages
- 97
- Publisher
- Silvaire, L. Conard, New Directions
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- French, Dutch, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788441416819
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“FOR SOME SIXTY YEARS NOW, French readers of Flaubert's last novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet, have been entertained by browsing through its supplement, the Dictionnaire des Idees Recues, to which is sometimes added the Catalogue des Idees Chic.”
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
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