Flaubert's Parrot
Language: English
Biographers Biographers - Fiction Classics Contemporary European Fiction Flaubert; Gustave - Appreciation - Fiction France France - Fiction French General Historical Literary Literary Criticism Literary Historians Literary Historians - Fiction Novelists; French Romance
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 15, 1984
Description:
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. 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.