Loved itit's a quirky postmodern mixture of different perspectives on the life of flubber and on the way master how a writer can help us think anew about ourselves
Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Others: Positive 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
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- 9781409088523
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- 191 pages
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