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The narrative follows an obsessive father who resolves to rear his son by scientific principles to counteract maternal sentimentalism, treating the child's development as an experiment and comparing individual growth to species evolution. The household includes a dreamy mother and a grotesque tutor whose eccentric doctrines and manipulations produce comic and unsettling outcomes. Through satirical episodes the work probes tensions between reason and feeling, the limits of pedagogical systems, and an ambivalent attitude toward science, literature, and language. Tone shifts between burlesque humor and philosophical reflection while characters often function as mouthpieces for ideological debate.
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