'Julian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years' Sunday Times 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. The voice is that of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a nagging need to rationalise his wife's suicide, and a more obscure compulsion to anatomise the processes of human identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780330289764
eBay Product ID (ePID)
86654550
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flaubert's Parrot
Author
Julian Barnes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
197mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
158g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Julian Barnes
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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