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Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
Geoff's review
Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Geoff's review
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This is an unfinished novel but I don't think that is going to matter. It is a picaresque romp through the buffoonery of the bourgois mind of 19th cent. France -- all the prejudices and obedience to blind authorities. These two clerks meet and become fast friends. One of them inherits a fortune and then they set out to make it in various professions. They invariably fail due to their insistence on remaining well-read but stubbornly ignorant. This is a very funny book.
