In Flaubert's own words, this novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile."
At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster. In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas.
Gustave Flaubert, (born December 12, 1821, Rouen, France — died May 8, 1880, Croisset) was a novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857). It is a realistic portrayal of bourgeois life, which led to a trial on charges of the novel’s alleged immorality.
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