Title: Flaubert's Parrot
First published: 1984
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
Subjects: Appreciation, Biographers, Fiction, Literary historians, In literature, French Novelists, Literature, English fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, France, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Belletristische Darstellung, Parrots, Art appreciation
Places: France
People: Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Gustave Flaubert