Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrotdeals 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 Parrotis by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.

Pages

190

Language

English

Published

1990

Publisher

Vintage

ISBN

0679731369