Lentes promenades existentielles dans Bouvard et Pécuchet de Gustave Flaubert
Slow existential walks in Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert

Author(s): Diana Gradu
Subject(s): French Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: slowness; foolishness; Flaubert; Bouvard et Pécuchet; literature; XIX century;
Summary/Abstract: 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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