Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes

Résumé :

Flaubert's Parrot is a massive lumber room of detail about the great man : in it we learn an enormous amount about his life, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But the voice that tells us all this is gradually revealed to be itself in the grip of an obsession. The voice is that of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a nagging need to rationalise his wife's suicide, and a more obscure compulsion to anatomise the processes of human identity.

Flaubert's Parrot was shortlisted for the Booker McConnell Prize in 1984 and won the 1985 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

A propos de l'auteur :

JULIAN BARNES has written seven novels, Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Talking It Over, and The Porcupine, a collection of short stories, Cross Channel, and one work of non-fiction, Letters from London 1990-1995. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking It Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg.

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