BOUVARD & PÉCUCHET

Gustave Flaubert's "Bouvard & Pécuchet" is a richly layered satirical novel that dissects the folly of unexamined knowledge and the human tendency toward intellectual mimicry. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the narrative follows two clerks who, after coming into an unexpected inheritance, embark on a quixotic quest to master every discipline from philosophy to agriculture, only to be met with inev...