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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

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Author Biography

Name: Julian (Patrick) Barnes
Variant Name: Julian Barnes, Julian Patrick Barnes, Edward Pygge, Dan Kavanagh
Birth Date: January 19, 1946
Nationality: British
Gender: Male

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Biography of Julian (Patrick) Barnes
5832 words, approx. 19.4 pages
Julian Barnes is one of the most celebrated and most variously rewarding of Britain's younger writers--that is, those who were born in the late 1940s and began publishing in the late 1970s or the 1980s, a group that also includes Martin Amis and Ian McEw...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Flaubert's Parrot Information
342 words, approx. 1 pages
Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. The novel recites amateur Flaubert expert Geoffrey Braithwaite's musings on his subject's life, and his own, as he tracks a stuffed parrot that once...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Flaubert's Parrots
6/12/2005: 925 words, approx. 3 pages
On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus. She was crooning about "dragon...
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The New York Observer
The Case of the Sore Thumb\'d1 Elementary, My Dear Watson
1/15/2006: 1,165 words, approx. 4 pages
For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its tropes who often seems like a droll, finger-snapping ringmaster guiding his adroit...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Neil Brooks
3,197 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Brooks analyzes the relationship between Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.
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Critical Review by Merle Rubin
1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Rubin lauds Barnes's ability to mix literary criticism and fiction in Flaubert's Parrot.
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Critical Review by Bruce Allen
218 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review, Allen praises Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot.


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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

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