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Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

Start date: February 1, 2015

Finish date: February 28, 2015

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Oct 06, 2024 Pamela rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This was quite an intriguing story based on the works of Gustave Flaubert. The narrator, retired doctor Geoffrey Braithwaite, is obsessed with Flaubert and visits his hometown Rouen and other connected sites. He discovers that two museums each have an exhibit claiming to be the parrot Flaubert had on his desk while writing Un coeur simple and from this the book unfolds.

It deals wittily and sensitively with some of those themes that modern authors seem to love - primarily the truth of the narrati ...more

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Jun 06, 2017 Gina Andrews rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Interesting book about a fictional writer writing a book about Gustave Flaubert, who wrote Madame Bovary. This funny book looks into which parrot may have inspired Flaubert and his life and eccentricities.

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Sep 08, 2019 Nancy rated it really liked it

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"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own." ...more

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