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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (June 24, 1976)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140443207
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140443202
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for the 80's generation-disco desperates, December 29, 1997
By beaty@sympatico.ca (Kingston, Ontario) - See all my reviews
Although he never finished this book, it remains even in translation, a perfect guide to the perils of bourgeois ambitions. Two hapless bank clerks use a sudden inheritance to dabble disastrously in all the current fashions, with hilarious and mordant results. Includes a "dictionary of received ideas" which should be required reading for all Americans. I read it at least once a year, out loud, and am much the better for the release. Buy it for everyone you know, and see if you can then watch Jimmy Stewart or Martha Stewart without throwing up.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sharp satire, fuzzy edition, October 10, 2001
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Bouvard and Pecuchet is one of the funniest books ever written, and remains every bit as telling in its attack on bourgeoise society as when it was first published. The "Dictionary of Received Ideas," which is included in this edition, is sort of a "Devil's Dictionary" of middle-class stupidities; astonishingly, almost all of its satirical bite still holds true. I dock this Penguin edition one star because it doesn't have any notes, which would have made Flaubert's nineteenth-century context far more easily graspable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Odd but interesting book, December 2, 2005
Flaubert supposedly read something like 1000 books to do the research for this novel and apparently had an almost photographic memory. Bouvard and Pecuchet proceed to plow through the entire corpus of human knowledge, ostensibly to become more learned and true Renaissance men, now that they are men of leisure.

You'd think this would seem a laudable goal for a French intellectual like Flaubert, but he seems to be make fun of such superficial or perhaps self-educated learning, and perhaps of human knowledge in general. Flaubert seems to presage the 20th century's weariness with arid and purely ivory-tower scholarship that perhaps has led to the anti-science sentiments we see today, the rise of fuzzy-minded, muddy, and fallacious philosophies like New Age, and perhaps even movements like Creationism's antipathy toward evolution and Darwin.

Perhaps to Flaubert, since there is no end to learning, and all human knowledge, or at least an individual human's learning is finite, there are no real truths and all knowledge is essentially relative and inconstant and incomplete. Certainly Bouvard and Pecuchet's projects are always doomed to failure and are never completed.

I'm not sure what else in the way of profound meaning I can glean from this book, but it does seem to sound a cautionary warning or perhaps cynical note on the dangers of superficial learning or perhaps even too much learning. Perhaps Flaubert is also saying life is not something to observe and analyze, but to experience instead. That would be consistent with the beliefs of the Realists, since the French Realist authors like him pioneered the idea of intensively observing and researching the common people and the dregs of society that they often wrote about, as in Zola's Nana, for example, who was a prostitute.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece of Comedy
As Flaubert aged, his books become broader comedy and this is the limit. Two petit French beurocrats, as indistinquishable as Rosencrantz and Gildenstern, take early retirement... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Billyjack D'Urberville

1.0 out of 5 stars Angry that I had to give it even one star
"Longwinded. Tedious. Impossible to finish (there was a reason Flaubert never finished this either).
Published on March 12, 2000 by The Phantom

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