# Le roman bourgeois: Ouvrage comique

By Antoine Furetière.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Annotator: Edouard Fournier
- Commentator: Charles Asselineau
- Subjects: Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction

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