In the canon
Bouvard et Pécuchet
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1881
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 340
Two dull Parisian copy clerks retire to the country and throw themselves at farming, science, medicine, politics and philosophy in turn, failing at every one, until they give up mastering the world and return to copying it out by hand.
Then a pitiable faculty developed itself in their minds, that of observing stupidity and no longer tolerating it.
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