Bouvard & Pécuchet

Bouvard & PécuchetThe French master Gustave Flauberts last work, the comic novel Bouvard & Pcuchet, was written during the last six years of his life. It was the concluding and all consuming effort of his career. Although he never finished it, the work is a masterpiece of satire and humor just as it is. In the introduction, the prize winning translator and critic Mark Polizzotti, writes: Bouvard and Pcuchet is not only a great precursor of Modernism this epic of

What better evidence could one have that the imagination does not need direct experience in order to function

Carlos Fuentes

is an artist-photographer whose pictures appear on the covers of most of Brautigan's books

In other words

on the left

to those in a position to judge

maximally pedagogical

a solution was coincidentally announced a few months after the opening of Arcadia

giving the subject

A mature couple

and this edition celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Edith Grossman is one of the most important living translators