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Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrot

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The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
Barnes's prize-winning novel has charmed readers since its first
publication in 1984 — 'A tour de force' Germaine Greer; 'A book to revel
in' Joseph Heller; 'A delight' John Fowles; 'An intricate and delightful novel' Graham Greene — and has become a classic. Our narrator
is Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubert.
As he leads us on an investigative trip through France and through the past, we are offered a glimpse of the writer who so fascinates him. At the same time the layers of Braithwaite's own past are peeled away to reveal someone infinitely more troubled than he first seemed.
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  • Ekaterina Gurinahas quoted2 years ago
    How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at an end-of-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet.
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    • Ekaterina Gurinahas quoted2 years ago
      I remember the end of L’Education sentimentale. Frédéric and his companion Deslauriers are looking back over their lives. Their final, favourite memory is of a visit to a brothel years before, when they were still schoolboys. They had planned the trip in detail, had their hair specially curled for the occasion, and had even stolen flowers for the girls. But when they got to the brothel, Frédéric lost his nerve, and they both ran away. Such was the best day of their lives. Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic?
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      • Ekaterina Gurinahas quoted2 years ago
        childhood instinct still makes me keep the best until last
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