Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet

This paper proposes a close textual analysis of Chapter III of the masterpiece of comic and satirical fiction that is Gustave Flaubert’s last novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). After exploring the sciences of medicine, cosmology, astronomy, and zoology, Flaubert’s “deux bonshommes” turn their attent...

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Main Author: Anthony Zielonka
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2011-07-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/1337