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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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Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
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- Released
- 1984
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- Title
- Flaubert's Parrot
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Julian Barnes
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679731369
- ISBN13
- 9780679731368
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Philosophical Topics, Humor, Literary Fiction, English Literature, Writers, Searching for the meaning of life, Searching in the Past, Intertextuality, End of the 20th Century
- First published
- 1984
- Original title
- Flaubert's Parrot
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- 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