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Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Prix Médicis Essai in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
- Julian Barnes
- 1984
1 de out. de 1984 · Flaubert'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.
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A retired doctor and Flaubert expert searches for the truth about the French writer's life and his parrot. The novel explores different perspectives, biographies, ironies, and coincidences in Flaubert's life and works.
Flaubert's Parrot brilliantly marries the details of Flaubert's life, his creation of the world of Emma Bovary, and the life of the narrator, Geoffrey Brathwaite, who had his own experience of adultery and, ultimately, of bereavement. And what about that parrot? Where did Flaubert get it? How did he conceive of it? How did it inspire him to write?
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A doctor obsessed with Flaubert's story "A Simple Heart" explores the mysteries and meanings behind the text and its author. Find out about the book's editions, translations, reviews, and interviews.
Flaubert's Parrot. Written by Julian Barnes. As Julian Barnes’ enigmatic narrator investigates the life and art of Flaubert, so he reveals his own secrets in this witty weave of fact and fiction.
A novel by Julian Barnes that explores the life and works of Gustave Flaubert through the lens of a green parrot. The novel combines biography, autobiography, literary criticism, parody, and epigrams in a playful and erudite style.
