Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes First published 1984

About this book

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

  • appreciation
  • art appreciation
  • belletristische darstellung
  • biographers
  • english fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • france, fiction
  • french novelists
  • in literature
  • literary historians
  • literature
  • new york times reviewed
  • parrots
  • romans, nouvelles