Flaubert's Parrot

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Flaubert's Parrot is a postmodern novel by Julian Barnes that blends literary criticism, biography, and fiction as it explores the life and legacy of Gustave Flaubert through an obsessive narrator.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf metafiction
novel
author Julian Barnes NERFINISHED
awardShortlist Booker Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED
awardShortlistYear 1984
centralSubject Gustave Flaubert NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
focusesOn legacy of Gustave Flaubert
life of Gustave Flaubert
genre biographical fiction
literary fiction
postmodern literature
hasCharacter Ed Winterton NERFINISHED
Ellen Braithwaite NERFINISHED
Louise Cope NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9780224016408
influencedBy Gustave Flaubert NERFINISHED
language English
literaryTechnique biographical entries
essayistic chapters
intertextuality
pastiches
questionnaires
mainCharacter Geoffrey Braithwaite NERFINISHED
mediaType print
motif multiple parrots allegedly associated with Flaubert
stuffed parrot
narrativeForm first-person narrative
notableFor blending criticism, biography, and fiction
innovative narrative form
partOf postmodern British literature
protagonistOccupation retired English doctor
publicationYear 1984
publisher Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED
setting France NERFINISHED
Normandy NERFINISHED
structure fragmentary
nonlinear
subjectOf literary criticism
theme biography
fiction and reality
literary criticism
obsession
the elusiveness of truth
the nature of authorship

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