Bibliograph

Flaubert's parrot, Julian Barnes

Type

Label

Flaubert's parrot, Julian Barnes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Flaubert's parrot

Oclc number

21561955

Responsibility statement

Julian Barnes

Series statement

Vintage international

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Flaubert's parrot -- Chronology -- Finders keepers -- The Flaubert bestiary -- Snap! -- Emma Bovary's eyes -- Cross channel -- The train-spotter's guide to Flaubert -- The Flaubert apocrypha -- The case against -- Louise Colet's version --Braithwaite's dictionary of accepted ideas -- Pure story -- Examination paper -- And the parrot ..

Target audience

adult

Classification