| Περίληψη: | Flaubert's Parrot is a massive lumber room of detail about the great man: in it we learn an enormous amount about his life, lovers, through processes, health and obsession. 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 hes wife's suicide, and a more obscure compulsion to anatomise the processes of human identity.
'Julian Barnes' success seems assured with this stunning combination of French provincial wisdom and tortured British self-analysis. The insinuating Barnesian style, weaving feathers of disparate fact into a parrot's plumage of riches and a croak of human anguish, should stop a few people in their tracks'
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