Bouvard et Pécuchet

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Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical novel by Gustave Flaubert that follows two copy clerks whose obsessive pursuit of knowledge exposes the absurdities of 19th-century intellectual life.

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instanceOf novel
satirical novel
unfinished work
author Gustave Flaubert
completedByAuthor false
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes superficial erudition
uncritical adoption of scientific theories
describes obsessive pursuit of knowledge
form prose
genre novel
satire
hasAdaptation radio adaptations
television adaptations
theatrical adaptations
hasPart projected second volume of notes
hasSubject agriculture
education
philosophy
religion
science
inception 1872
influenced 20th-century literary modernism
postmodern literature
languageStyle impersonal
ironic
literaryMovement Realism
mainCharacter François Bouvard
Juste Pécuchet
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFeature extensive use of quotations and documentation
unfinished second part planned as a compilation of notes
numberOfProtagonists 2
originalLanguage French
posthumouslyPublished true
protagonistOccupation copy clerk
publicationStatus posthumous
satirizes 19th-century intellectual life
bourgeois society
encyclopedic knowledge
positivism
settingPeriod 19th century
structure episodic
theme failure of encyclopedic knowledge
limits of human understanding
repetition and futility
ridicule of intellectual fashions
workLocationInFiction Normandy
workOfAuthor Gustave Flaubert

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