Flaubert's Parrot

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Editions

London: Cape, 1984. 190 p. (20 cm.) 

London: Picador, 1985. 190 p. (20 cm.) ISBN: 0330289764 

(Paperback) 

New York: Knopf, 1985. 190 p. (22 cm.) ISBN: 039454272X 

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. 216 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0070037485 

(1st McGraw-Hill paperback edition) 

Oxford, England: Oasis Audio Books, 1989. Read by Crawford Logan. ISBN: 1850897263 

Recording: 6 sound cassettes (7hr., 15 min.): analog. 
Unabridged audio books. Music No: OAS 89066 

New York: Vintage Books, 1990. 190 p. (21 cm.) ISBN: 0679731369 

(1st Vintage international edition) 

London: Bloomsbury, 1992. 308 p. (17 cm.) ISBN: 0747513473 

(Series: Bloomsbury classics) 

Le perroquet de Flaubert. Paris: Stock, 1986. 231 p. (23 cm.) ISBN: 2234019338 

(Series: Nouveau cabinet cosmopolite) 

Le perroquet de Flaubert. Paris: Stock, 1986. 251 p. (17 cm.) 

(Series: Livre de poche -- 6382) 

El loro de Flaubert. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1986. 229 p. (20 cm.) 

(Series: Panorama de narrativas) 

El loro de Flaubert. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1995. 229p. (19 cm.) ISBN: 8433920901 

(Series: Compactos - 86) 
(2nd Spanish edition. Translated by Antonio Mauri.) 

Il pappagallo di Flaubert. Milano: Rizzoli, 1987. 271 p. (23 cm.) ISBN: 881767110X 

(Series: Scala. First Italian edition.) 

Flaubertin papukaija. Porvoo Helsinki Juva: WSOY, 1987. 277 p. (21 cm.) ISBN: 951-0-14658-7 

(First Finnish edition translated by Kristiina Drews. Hardback) 

Flaubertin papukaija. Porvoo Helsinki Juva: WSOY, 1994. 277p. (20 cm.) ISBN: 951-0-19917-6 

Notes: Translation of Flaubert's Parrot by Kristiina Drews. Finnish. 
(Second Finnish edition translated by Kristiina Drews. Paperback) 

Flaubertova papiga. Zagreb: Znanje, 1990. 213 p. (20 cm.) ISBN: 8631302031 

(Series: Biblioteka moderne literature Hit. Trideset sedmo kolo; sv. 221. Serbo-Croatian.) 

 
Criticism

Fokkema, Aleid. "The Author: Postmodernism's Stock Character." IN Franssen, Paul, and Ton Hoenselaars, eds. The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999. p. 39-51. 

Brooks, Neil. "Interred Textuality: The Good Soldier and Flaubert's Parrot." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41(1) (Fall 1999): 45-51. (ISSN: 0011-1619) 

Guignery, Vanessa. "'My Wife . . . Died': une mort en pointillé dans Flaubert's Parrot de J. Barnes." Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines no.17 (1999). 

Hurrell, Greg. "Untitled Essay on Flaubert's Parrot." Wincent's Web Page, 1997. 

From the site: "Wincent (a pseudonym) is a student currently undertaking studies at Flinders University, South Australia, towards a bachelor's degree in Education. Wincent has established this web site for the publication of written works (assessment and research pieces) produced in the course of his studies." 

Shephear, Tania. "Towards a Description of Atypical Narratives: A Study of the Underlying Organisation of Flaubert's Parrot." Language and Discourse 5 (1997): 71-95. (ISSN: 1351-0878) 

Raykowski, Harald. "Gegenwartsromane im Englischunterricht? Julian Barnes und der neue historische Roman." Neusprachliche Mitteilungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis 50(2) (1997): 93-97. (ISSN: 0028-3983) 

Guignery, Vanessa. "Palimpseste et pastiche generique chez Julian Barnes." Etudes Anglaises 50(1) (January-March 1997): 40-52. (ISSN: 0014-195X) 

Giovannelli, Laura. "I codici infranti: Inclusivita, riscrittura e metanarrativita in Flaubert's Parrot di Julian Barnes." Strumenti Critici 10(2) (May 1995): 271-86. (ISSN: 0039-2618) 

Petit, Michel. "'Gourstave Flaubear': L'Intertextualite contrastive comme procede metafictionnel dans Flaubert's Parrot de Julian Barnes." IN Max Duperray, ed. Historicite et metafiction dans le roman contemporain des Iles Britanniques. Aix en Provence: Univ. de Provence, 1994. p. 121-37. 

Bell, William. "Not Altogether a Tomb -- Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot." Imitating Art: Essays in Biography. Ed. David Ellis. London: Pluto Press, 1993. 149-173. 

Scott, James B. "Parrot as Paradigms: Infinite Deferral of Meaning in Flaubert's Parrot." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 21(3) (July 1990): 57-68. (ISSN: 0004-1327) 

Suarez, Ramon. "Notas acerca de un loro famoso." Revista Chilena de Literatura 29 (April 1987): 151-155. (ISSN: 0048-7651) 

Salgas, Jean Pierre. "Julian Barnes n'en a pas fini avec Flaubert." La Quinzaine Litteraire no.463 (16-31 May 1986): 10-13. (ISSN: 0048-6493) 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Contemporary Reviews

Bragg, Melvyn. "In Fine Feather." Punch 287 (October 17, 1984): 22-23. 

Hope, Mary. "Pretty Polly." Spectator 253 (November 3, 1984): 26-27. 

Brooks, Peter. "Obsessed With the Hermit of Croisset." New York Times Book Review 90 (March 10, 1985): 7, 9. 

Taliaferro, Frances. "A Flaubertian Flight of Fantasy." Wall Street Journal (April 5, 1985): 15. 

Kermode, Frank. "Obsessed With Obsession." New York Review of Books 32 (April 25, 1985): 15-16. 

Updike, John. "A Pair of Parrots." New Yorker 61(22) (July 22, 1985): 86-90. 

Sinclair, Mick. "Unpublished Review of Flaubert's Parrot." Jamming! 1985. (Note: This review was never published. Provided by Mick Sinclair.) 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Related Internet Sites

BBC Radio 4: Book Club. James Naughtie and a selected panel of guests discuss Flaubert's Parrot with Julian Barnes. Originally aired December 5, 1999. This website provided a very brief transcript of the program. 

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