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  1. Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, [1] and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Prix Médicis Essai in 1985 and 1986 respectively.

    • Julian Barnes
    • 1984
  2. A novel by Julian Barnes that explores the life and works of Gustave Flaubert through the lens of a green parrot. The novel combines biography, autobiography, literary criticism, parody, and epigrams in a playful and erudite style.

  3. A retired doctor and Flaubert expert searches for the truth about the French writer's life and his parrot. The novel explores different perspectives, biographies, ironies, and coincidences in Flaubert's life and works.

  4. Oct 1, 1984 · Flaubert'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.

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    • Paperback
  5. Flaubert's Parrot. Written by Julian Barnes. As Julian Barnes’ enigmatic narrator investigates the life and art of Flaubert, so he reveals his own secrets in this witty weave of fact and fiction.

  6. 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...

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  8. Feb 4, 2022 · Flaubert's Parrot is a massive lumber room of detail about the great man: in it we learn an enormous amount about his life, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But the voice that tells us all this is gradually revealed to be itself in the grip of an obsession.