Julian Barnes
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| Original Title: | Flaubert's Parrot |
| ISBN: | 0679731369 (ISBN13: 9780679731368) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1984), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1985), Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1988) |
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Flaubert'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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| Title | : | Flaubert's Parrot |
| Author | : | Julian Barnes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 190 pages |
| Published | : | November 27th 1990 by Vintage (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.66 From 12001 Users | 966 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Flaubert's Parrot
This is perhaps my least favourite novel by this author. It is still worth reading - he is still one of my favourite authors - it is just that it is missing something, unlike the other novels by him which I don't think are lacking in anything at all. I think this was because at first what I thought this would be about - you know, the 'big themes'- ended up being what the book turned out to be about. Never a particularly fun thing to find out about a book. There isn't much I can say about this,This book is the biography of Gustave Flaubert written by the Francophile Julian Barnes.Or may be not, may be this is a pointless story of a widower and retired doctor, Geoffrey Braithwaite, who is as fascinated with Flaubert as is his creator.Or if we are to get intellectual, is this a satirical meditation on writing, on reading, on the possibilities of gaining a deeper insight into the literary output of an author by studying his life, or even on the irremediably fictional nature of being able
A very funny book which combines fiction and literary criticism in an ingenious manner. However, in one sense it is all one big in-joke about Flaubert, so the more one knows about "l'oncle Gustave," the better one will understand the humour.A second reading has changed my impression of the novel somewhat. Although the previous statement still holds true, and it sparkles with wit and irony, it also has a darker underbelly, so to speak. This book seems to be about the different perspectives one
There's something about Barnes's prose that just feels so flawless. Rarely do I trip on an ill-suited word or poorly formed sentence. Flaubert's Parrot was a pleasure to read for its use of language, for its playful tone, and for its exhaustively researched expedition through literary history. The central conceit regarding obsession (though the thread was expertly woven into the fabric of the novel) was not entirely successful: one is left impressed with the effort, but not particularly moved by
That I knew very little of Flauberts life was an advantage for me to get a full immersion into this literary extravaganza. One can tell that Barnes had fun writing this alternative biography of the famous French writer, using his stuffed parrot to concoct a colorful tapestry of interspersed anecdotes with metaliterary intention, ironic finesse and the savoir faire of a virtuous ventriloquist.The fictitious narrator Doctor Geoffrey Braithwaite scrutinizes the correspondence between Flaubert and
"I attract mad people and animals."Loved.A novelised biography of Gustave Flaubert. But better than that sounds. I get the feeling that while Julian Barnes was stalking his favourite author, he found so many oddities and pleasing coincidences (les perroquets !) that he kept a journal entitled Cool shit I know about Flaubert and other musings which became this book.The obsession rubs off. Youre lying if you enjoyed this and didnt contemplate ordering A Simple Soul. This quote cut too close to
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