Friday, October 27, 2006

Contemporary Reads: Flaubert's Parrot

This book is a novel about a retired British doctor who is an amateur scholar on Gustave Flaubert. In fact, one learns a lot about the author of Madame Bovary by reading it. At times funny, always informed, this novel is a triumph.
The book's author, Julian Barnes, is francophile Englishman many of whose books are set in or inspired by France.
Other books I have read by this author: England, England.

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