Flaubert’s Parrot
work by Barnes
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Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that explores the obsession of a scholar with the 19th-century French writer Gustave Flaubert and a stuffed parrot that inspired Flaubert's short story "Un Coeur simple". The novel is a blend of biography, fiction, and literary criticism. Gustave Flaubert himself was a key figure in the realist movement of French literature, best known for his novel Madame Bovary. Barnes's novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.12
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