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Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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