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Flaubert's Parrot

By: Julian Barnes
Narrated by: Julian Barnes
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Summary

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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.


© Julian Barnes 1984 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

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Critic reviews

Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’
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
A dazzling entertainer
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
A delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984
All stars
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Would you try another book written by Julian Barnes or narrated by Julian Barnes?

I love julian Barnes-- so effortless in his writing and narration

What will your next listen be?

England,England

Which scene did you most enjoy?

most of what i heard

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Flaubert's Parrot?

If i was the editor i would have redone this entire production as the sound levels of this recording are faulty especially from chapter 3 onwards

Any additional comments?

this audiobook is faulty very poor sound quality

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