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What is Flaubert's Parrot about?

Amazon.com Review Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot , anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself? On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple , where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale." What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian c

Who reads Flaubert's Parrot?

Author

Barnes, Julian

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679731368

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (8,011 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14