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How does bureaucracy get satirised in the story

How does bureaucracy get satirised

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One example can be seen when the protagonist spots Professor Youssef “sitting alone at his usual table.” That “lazy, pretentious, Algerian pseudo-French intellectual” always dressed up in “gabardine suits with the same thin tie” that “had its glory in the seventies.” He hid “behind his sixties-era eyeglasses” and emulated “French thinkers” by “smoking his pipe in dimly lit spots.” He spent “all day in that café” and talked about literature. The irony was that the great French philosophers didn’t spend their time smoking pipes all day long, Professor Youssef had almost nothing in common with them.

How does bureaucracy get satirised in the story