190 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1985 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
Flaubert's parrot
Julian Barnes: Flaubert's parrot (1985, Knopf, Distributed by Random House)
- OCLC Number:
- 11291489
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An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality
Subjects
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Appreciation -- Fiction
- Literary historians -- Fiction
- Biographers -- Fiction
- France -- Fiction