Julian Barnes, "Flaubert's Parrot": commentary

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Résumé

A commentary on the novel Flaubert's Parrot, written by Julian Barnes.

Extract:

Flaubert's Parrot was published in 1984. Julian Barnes had written two novels before, but this one was warmly welcomed by the critics and the readers, both in Great Britain and France, and “it established Barnes as one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation” (Wikipedia). The pretext of the book is the quest (by a fictional narrator called Geoffrey Braithwaite) for the stuffed parrot that inspired the description of Loulou in the short story Un coeur simple (Trois contes, 1877). In fact, it is very difficult to classify this book in a genre. Julian Barnes himself told it was “an upside-down, informal piece of novel-biography”. I would say it is a set of chronicles about the life and work of Flaubert (...)

Contents:

In these elements of commentary, I will first try to show how well Julian Barnes introduces the reader to Flaubert's world, and to establish a typology of the chapters. Then I will try to understand what makes this book so difficult to classify. Finally I will give a more personal point of view about the weaknesses of the form.

I) A discovery of Flaubert's universe
II) What does make this book so difficult to classify?
III) My personal point of view about the weaknesses of the form

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