Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, who died before completing the novel. It was published posthumously in 1881, the year after the author’s death, in its unfinished form. The novel follows the two eponymous heroes as they embark on a rather unusual journey of scientific discovery, flitting between their constantly changing fields of interest and meeting with nothing but disappointment and failure. Flaubert, who intended this novel to act as a kind of “encyclopaedia of human stupidity” (which he also considered using as the novel’s sub-title), is considered one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, and one of the pioneers of literary realism.
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French writer
Born in Rouen in 1821.
Died near Rouen in 1880.
Notable works:
Salammbô (1862), novel
Sentimental Education (1869), novel
Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), unfinished novel
Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821 in Rouen. He was passionate about writing and discovered his literary vocation at a very young age. In 1841, he moved to Paris to begin studies in law, which he quickly abandoned. The author then settled in Croisset, along the Seine, and began frequenting the literary societies of the time. He befriended authors such as Charles Baudelaire (French poet, 1821-1867), Ivan Turgenev (Russian writer, 1818-1883), George Sand (French writer, 1804-1876) and Guy de Maupassant (French writer, 1850-1893), for whom he would be a role model.
An obsessive perfectionist, he defended reflexive literature and dreamed of writing a book about nothing
. His work, which is also distinguished by the depth of the psychological analysis of the characters, heralds the many