Flaubert's parrot

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An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality

subjects: Appreciation,  Biographers,  Fiction,  Literary historians,  In literature,  French Novelists,  Literature,  English fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, general,  France, fiction,  Romans, nouvelles,  Belletristische Darstellung,  Parrots,  Art appreciation

People: Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880),  Gustave Flaubert

Places: France