Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes ebook
ISBN: 9780679731368
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 192
Format: pdf

Overview: Julian Barnes is the author of eight novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 - Chapters, England, England and Love Etc., and a collection of short stories, Cross Channel. The retired widowed doctor narrator of FLAUBERT'S PARROT by Julian Barnes is an obsessive fan of the late French writer Gustave Flaubert author of MADAME BOVARY. Flauberts-parrot I've been re-reading Julian Barnes' paean to Flaubert. In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's protagonist Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor, widower and amateur Flaubert enthusiast, spends a chapter demolishing Enid Starkie's biography of the writer. And Flaubert pays the most attention to Félicité's relationship with her pet parrot Loulou, which takes up the latter part of the story. Which is odd since, thank the gods, i've not lost my lover, best friend, partner. This ubiquitous “I” has the witty, sophisticated, entertaining style we're familiar with from Mr. Chapter 13, Pure Story, I particularly enjoyed. Barnes' most famous novel, Flaubert's Parrot (1984). He didn't have to wait too long. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes. The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.” Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot. Awash with histories, love affairs, animals, minutiae and several layers of ironies, Barnes deserves the Legion D'honneur, if not a Booker, for Flaubert's Parrot.