Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert

Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

Gustave Flaubert with Jacques Barzun (Translator)

96 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

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Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the clich , 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 ...

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