Sentimental Education
Ezra Pound wrote "Flaubert having recorded provincial customs in "Madame Bovary" and city habits in the "Sentimental Education", set out to complete his record of nineteenth century life by presenting all sorts of things that the average man of the period would have had in his head." Pound compared "Bouvard et Pècuchet" to Joyce's "Ulysses" ("Pound/Joyce" 201).