by Gustave Flaubert · Eterna Cadencia SL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412746143
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Bouvard et Pécuchet is the final, ambitious novel by Gustave Flaubert, published posthumously. The story follows two Parisian copyists who, after a chance meeting, decide to retire to the countryside to explore every branch of human knowledge, from agriculture to philosophy, chemistry, and politics. Through their constant failures and relentless pursuit of learning, Flaubert constructs a masterful satire on human stupidity and the intellectual pretensions of his time. This edition, translated and introduced by Jorge Fondebrider, is considered one of the most complete and carefully crafted versions in Spanish, offering a fundamental work of world literature that uses humor and irony to reflect on the superficiality of knowledge and the nature of intellectual life.
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.
