Bouvard and Pécuchet

Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and Pécuchet is now considered to be one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces.

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Released in 1881, this comedic novel capped Flaubert's career. It follows the title characters as they abandon their clerkships in the city to try country life and fail at every turn. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Gustave Flaubert (1821) is considered to be one of the most important French novelists of the nineteenth century. He's most well known for his novel Madame Bovarye and for his desire to write "a book about nothinge" a novel in which all external elementse especially the presence of the authore have been eliminatede leaving nothing but style itself. Often considered a member of the naturalist schoole Flaubert despised categorizations of this sorte and in novels like Bouvard and Pécuchet demonstrates the inaptness of this label. In addition to these two novelse he is also the author of A Sentimental Educatione Salamboe Three Talese and The Temptation of Saint Anthony.