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Bouvard and P�cuchet

By Gustave Flaubert
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By Gustave Flaubert

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Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritence, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas.

In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalties of intellectual life in France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of hu...

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