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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. Valuable First Edition, hardcover. Binding tight and hinges without wear. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent copy of this rare, collectible work of literature by Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes, published in The book is a collection of biographical research, literary criticism, and philosophical considerations on the relationship between writers and their works, told from the perspective of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a . Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. Valuable First Edition, hardcover. Binding tight and hinges without wear. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent copy of this rare, collectible work of literature by Julian Barnes.

Flaubert's Parrot is an exceptionally erudite blend of fiction and literary history. The story of Dr. Braithwaite and a commentary on the life and work of Gustave Flaubert co-exist in a way which. Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes To Pat When you write the biography of a friend, you must do it as if you were taking revenge for him. Flaubert, letter to Enest Feydeau, Note I am grateful to James Fenton and the Salamander Press for permission to reprint the lines from 'A German Requiem' on page The translations in this book are by. Flaubert's Parrot (Mass Market Paperback) Published January 1st by Picador. Picador Thirty, Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Julian Barnes. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.

Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in , concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk.A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. Looked at from one angle, Flaubert’s Parrot is a novel about devotion, a celebration of literary obsession and a display of mastery. It catches the gaps in biography, showing the impossibility of ever reconstructing a life, especially the life of a great writer resistant to being written about. 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 scholarly and romantic.