Flaubert's parrot
1st Vintage international ed.
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Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1888718M
- ISBN-100679731369
- OCLC Control Number21561955
- OCLC Control Numberflaubertsparrot00barn_0
- Library of Congress Control Number90050162
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- LibraryThing10083
- Goodreads2176
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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- Vintage international
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