Lentes promenades existentielles dans Bouvard et Pécuchet de Gustave Flaubert
Published after the author’s death, Bouvard and Pécuchet remains the last masterpiece of Gustave Flaubert. Contrary to the majority of exegeses, I will try to see in this text the slowness behind the feverish activities, the laziness beyond the sterile encyclopaedic enthusiasms, the laissez-faire and the abandonment of any constructive approach. A common existence, conducted “au ralenti”, in favor of contemplation and essential questions about human condition and the universe.
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