Author

Publication

1990 - Vintage Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

47,500 words, Guess

Page Count

190 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6052.A6657 F56 1990

Description

An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert'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.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 of seductive originality

Description

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Series Statement

  • Vintage international

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  • Flaubert's parrotVintage Books1990-01-01
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