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"The story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor obsessed with the French writer Flaubert and in particular with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes slyly combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, gradually revealing how Braithwaite's absurd quest is connected to the personal tragedies that haunt him."
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When I took the French AP we had to write an essay on the meaning of Flaubert's parrot. Would have been much better if I had already laughed my way through Barnes!
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"Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity" - Gustave Flaubert.
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