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Genre/Form: | novels Novels Fiction Biographical fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's parrot. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985 (OCoLC)679457173 |
Named Person: | Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: | Julian Barnes |
ISBN: | 039454272X 9780394542720 0679731369 9780679731368 |
OCLC Number: | 11291489 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Booker Prize 1984 |
Description: | 190 pages ; 22 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Julian Barnes. |
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Abstract:
"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." -- publisher's description.
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