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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 · 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. Show more. Genres Fiction Literature Literary Fiction British Literature Novels Contemporary Historical Fiction. ...more.
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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 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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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 about a retired doctor's obsession with the French writer Gustave Flaubert and his parrot. The novel explores themes of biography, fiction, and literary criticism through Braithwaite's quest to find the true Loulou, the parrot in Flaubert's story "A Simple Heart".
Flaubert's Parrot. BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed...
