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Bouvard and Pecuchet

by Gustave Flaubert


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Unfinished at his death, Flaubert's final work is a vastly funny satire of the intellectual and moral pretensions of 19th-century French bourgeois society. It features two Chaplinesque clerks who, with the help of a surprise legacy, attempt to scale the heights of knowledge--only to discover an abyss of stupidity.


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9781582873893 9781582873893, Hardcover, North Books, 2006

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"Some see 'Bouvard et Pécuchet' as a brilliant failure, but its sheer ambition is extraordinary: to encapsulate all knowledge, and to dismiss it."

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