Reading Bouvard and Pecuchet with the Dictionary of Received Ideas | Alexandria
Read Bouvard and Pecuchet with the Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert. Exposing bourgeois stupidity, Flaubert's unfinished masterwork skewers society's empty platitudes and ready-made opinions - revealing how little has changed in our own echo-chamber culture. Through two bumbling copyists, it shows how recycled wisdom becomes a shield against real thinking, a pattern that still shapes discourse today.