Bouvard et Pécuchet

Name: Bouvard et Pécuchet
Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9781911429371

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Series: World Classics
Language: French
Length: 346 pages
ISBN: 9781911429371
Published: 15 May 2016
Imprint: Egoist Press

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Description

Bouvard et Pécuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament. They meet one hot summer day in 1838 by the canal Saint-Martin and form an instant, symbiotic friendship. When Bouvard inherits a sizable fortune, the two decide to move to the countryside.

Author

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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