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Gustave Flaubert Laughs at Wikipedia, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 13th, 2010 in Category: French Literature, Wikipedia

In novels like "Sentimental Education" and "Bouvard and Pécuchet", and in his comic inventory of clichés and repeated ideas, Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues, Gustave Flaubert made fun of 18th and 19th century attempts to catalogue, classify, list, and record all of scientific and historical knowledge.