Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes · b. 1946 · England
Why it matters
A grieving doctor chases the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk, and the impossibility of ever knowing a life. Barnes's genre-bending blend of biography, essay, and fiction.
At a glance
postmodernpsychological novel
Difficulty 6/10slow pace190 pagesEssayistic digressions and non-chronological fragments dissolve the usual novel shape.
