A review by jasonfurman
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert

4.0

The writing is very much Flaubert but the story seems to verge n parody--a poor maid suffers a serious of misfortunes, culminating in her getting her mistresses parrot, becoming increasingly obsessed with it, getting it stuffed after it dies, and then seeing a giant version of it in the sky after she died. I read Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot a long time ago but never knew where the allusion came from. While I enjoyed the writing, I'm still not entirely sure of the point of this novella.