Dictionnaire Des Idees Recues
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Dictionnaire Des Idees Recues by Gustave Flaubert
Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliche, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the right thinking swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of absurdities, of half-truths and social lies, was published as a Dictionnaire des idees recues. Because its devastating humor and irony are often dependent on the phrasing in vernacular French, the Dictionnairewas long considered untranslatable. This notion was taken as a challenge by Jacques Barzun. Determined to find the exact English equivalent for each accepted idea Flaubert recorded, he has succeeded in documenting our own inanities. With a satirist's wit and a scholar's precision, Barzun has produced a very contemporary self-portrait of the middle-class philistine, a species as much alive today as when Flaubert railed against him.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9782253098362 |
| ISBN 10 | 2253098361 |
| Title | Dictionnaire Des Idees Recues |
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| Series | Ldp Classiques |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Livre de Poche |
| Year published | 2004-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |