by Gustave Flaubert · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253160496
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«Bouvard et Pécuchet» is Gustave Flaubert's satirical novel, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (474 pages, in French).
The novel follows two Parisian copyists who, after receiving an inheritance, move to the countryside and decide to take turns exploring the main fields of knowledge: agriculture, medicine, archaeology, history and other disciplines. Each attempt to apply what they have learned ends in failure, but their encyclopedic zeal drives them to keep trying. Flaubert turns that chain of errors into a satire of human stupidity and superficial knowledge.
Posthumous and unfinished novel: Flaubert died in 1880 without completing it. This 1999 edition, edited by Pierre-Marc de Biasi, includes the mention 'Écoles scientifiques, concours 2000'.
For readers of French classics and for students preparing for the 2000 concours of the écoles scientifiques.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
