Flaubert’s Parrot (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Barnes
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Experimental
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: France and England
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Literature, Marriage, Writing, 1980’s, Novelists, England or English people, Truth, Birds, Biography
- Locales: France, England
Characters Discussed
Gustave Flaubert (gew-STAHV floh-BEHR), the famous nineteenth century novelist. He is the object of obsession of Geoffrey Braithwaite. He is a blond giant, a Norman who thinks of himself as being like a bear. By the age of thirty, however, his good looks have begun to crumble as the result of syphilis treatments that leave him increasingly balding and stout. He is also prone to recurrent epileptic fits. The son of a successful Rouen surgeon, Flaubert has failed in law school and begun a confirmed bachelor’s life, devoted to writing while he lives on an...
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