Flaubert's Parrot (Birthday Edition)

Name: Flaubert's Parrot (Birthday Edition)
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780330491969

Julian Barnes

06/09/2002
Picador

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Flaubert's Parrot (Birthday Edition) par Julian Barnes

Résumé

Barnes's prize-winning novel has charmed readers since its first publication in 1984 - 'A tour de force' Germaine Greer; 'A book to revel in' Joseph Heller; 'A delight' John Fowles; 'An intricate and delightful novel' Graham Greene - and has become a classic.Our narrator is Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubert. As he leads us on an investigative trip through France and through the past, we are offered a glimpse of the writer who so fascinates him. At the same time the layers of Braithwaite's own past are peeled away to reveal someone infinitely more troubled than he first seemed.'Julian Barnes's 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