Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

By Julian Barnes

Pages

190

Rating

3.65

Year

1984

ContemporaryFictionHistorical FictionLiteratureBritish LiteratureNovels

Description

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.

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

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