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Flaubert’s Parrot - Barnes, Julian
Sophisticated literary inventions are seldom as charming as this one, an intricately composed but inviting exploration of the nature of desire. The intricacy of the composition comes from Julian Barnes’s playful orchestration of a variety of styles, combining fiction with literary criticism, biography, diversions scholarly and reflective, a chronology, even a mock exam; the charm comes from the unfailing tunefulness of his sentences—they are shaped with a confidence, clarity, and concentrated energy that give great pleasure. With digressive progress, Barnes leads us on a delightfully comic pursuit of large questions: Is love, like art, finally unknowable, except in the imaginative experience of it? Is memory itself an art, in which we shape, in story, our subjectivity? Filled with literary fun of a very high order, Flaubert’s Parrot is a seriously delicious confection.
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192 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679731368
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 27 November 1990
fiction
contemporary
reflective
slow-paced
fiction
contemporary
reflective
slow-paced
192 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679731368
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 27 November 1990
fiction
contemporary
reflective
slow-paced
fiction
contemporary
reflective
slow-paced
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