Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Flaubert'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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo! Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force Unputdownable... A mesmeric original A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny * Sunday Times * A dazzling entertainer * New Yorker * Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in! Julian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years * Sunday Times * A delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984 * John Fowles * A dazzling achievement...remarkably inventive as well as audacious * Walter Abish *
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 127 mm
Breite: 193 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-09-954008-3 (9780099540083)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d'Honneur in 2017.
