TY - BOOK AU - Furetière,Antoine AU - Fournier,Edouard AU - Asselineau,Charles TI - Le roman bourgeois: Ouvrage comique AV - PQ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roman_bourgeois; Release date is 2010-08-12; Produced by Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Le roman bourgeois: Ouvrage comique" by Antoine Furetière is a novel published in 1666. This groundbreaking work abandons traditional romance plots to present interconnected sketches of middle-class Parisian life. The first part follows naive Javotte and her suitors, alongside cunning Lucrèce, exposing greed, foolishness, and vanity. The second part satirizes litigation-obsessed characters and concludes with a biting portrait of the literary world through a deceased author's pitiful manuscript collection. Furetière's sharp parody challenged conventional storytelling with its deliberately fragmented structure and unflinching mockery of bourgeois pretensions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33414 ER -