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Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Prix Médicis Essai in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
- Julian Barnes
- 1984
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. Show more. Genres Fiction Literature Literary Fiction British Literature Novels Contemporary Historical Fiction. ...more.
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Mar 10, 1985 · ''Flaubert's Parrot'' is high literary entertainment. The obsession belongs to the narrator of the novel, one Geoffrey Braithwaite, a cranky but somewhat endearing English doctor in his...
Geoffrey Braithwaite is the learned and querulous narrator of this inquiry into the mysteries of Gustave Flaubert and his art, and into the facts of his own marriage to the adulteress he adored.
Nov 27, 1990 · 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.
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- Julian Barnes
- Julian Barnes
It is narrated by Dr. Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired British general practitioner in his sixties, widowed from a wife whom he never understood, who becomes obsessed with seeking to...
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In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a look at the perverse autopsies that readers perform on books and lovers perform on their beloved; and a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both ...
