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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bouvard et Pécuchet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Bouvard et Pécuchet Context triple: [Gustave Flaubert, notableWork, Bouvard et Pécuchet]
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is a landmark 1857 realist novel by Gustave Flaubert that portrays the tragic life and romantic disillusionment of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife.
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La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores religious fervor, sexuality, and guilt through the tragic story of a young priest torn between his faith and earthly desire.
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Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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D.
Le Cousin Pons
Le Cousin Pons is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the tragic decline of an aging, impoverished art collector exploited by his greedy relatives and acquaintances.
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E.
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil is the aristocratic French family name of Émilie du Châtelet, associated with the 18th-century nobility and intellectual circles of France.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Bouvard et Pécuchet Target entity description: 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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A.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is a landmark 1857 realist novel by Gustave Flaubert that portrays the tragic life and romantic disillusionment of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife.
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B.
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores religious fervor, sexuality, and guilt through the tragic story of a young priest torn between his faith and earthly desire.
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C.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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D.
Le Cousin Pons
Le Cousin Pons is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the tragic decline of an aging, impoverished art collector exploited by his greedy relatives and acquaintances.
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E.
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil is the aristocratic French family name of Émilie du Châtelet, associated with the 18th-century nobility and intellectual circles of France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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satirical novel ⓘ unfinished work ⓘ |
| author | Gustave Flaubert ⓘ |
| completedByAuthor | false ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticizes |
superficial erudition
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uncritical adoption of scientific theories ⓘ |
| describes | obsessive pursuit of knowledge ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
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satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
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television adaptations ⓘ theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasPart | projected second volume of notes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
agriculture
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education ⓘ philosophy ⓘ religion ⓘ science ⓘ |
| inception | 1872 ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century literary modernism
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
impersonal
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ironic ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
François Bouvard
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Juste Pécuchet ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
extensive use of quotations and documentation
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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
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bourgeois society ⓘ encyclopedic knowledge ⓘ positivism ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| structure | episodic ⓘ |
| theme |
failure of encyclopedic knowledge
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limits of human understanding ⓘ repetition and futility ⓘ ridicule of intellectual fashions ⓘ |
| workLocationInFiction | Normandy ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Gustave Flaubert ⓘ |
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