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Student’s name: Group: Title: Author: Original date of publication: Publisher / URL: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ps8goXxMSakJ:marul.ffst.hr/~bwill ems/fymob/jbfp.doc+&cd=1&hl=ca&ct=clnk&gl=es Structure (Describe how the book is structured: Parts, books, chapters, etc., and comment on it if appropriate.) Although it is consider to be a novel, some scholars claim that the novel is considered to be a fictional novel and and a biography, very personal, and not that much systematic, with a very personal interpretations of the life of Flaubert. The text is not structured as an straight line but each of the chapter of the novel is conferred in different structure; usually a brief introduction with an story in, some notes or a letter and some comments over the letter or some observations over it. I think the remark I then made was deeply unfair to Mr Gosse both as a writer and as a sexual being; but I do not see how I could have avoided it. There’s usually a small chronology over the events which enlarges with the flow of the narration and the events presented. During the duration of the narrative there are changes of voice and tone that do not get things clear for the reader. As the reader does not has a contiuous narration thread, there’s the possibility to get lost. The union of the same text is kind of blurry between anecdotes, information and facts which the text ends up being overload with Flaubert’s passions and ideas. The chapter on chronology was quite interesting because it provided a chronology of Flaubert’s life from three different perspectives – the first was a regular chronology made up of the important events in Flaubert’s life, Flaubert’s Parrot’ is not a book for everyone. If one is looking for a plot with a beginning, a middle and a surprising end, this is not that one. If one is looking for long, beautiful passages and philosophical commentaries on the modern world, like ‘The Sense of an Ending’ so beautifully provides, one won’t find them here. This one starts like: “ Chronology I 1821 Birth of Gustave Flaubert, second so of Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, head surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu, Rouen, and of Anne-Justine-Caroline Flaubert, née Fleuriot. The family
belongs to the successful professional middle class, and owns several properties in the vicinity of Rouen. A stable, enlightened, encouraging and normally ambitious background.” Whereas the second was made up of all the tragic and sad events in Flaubert’s life and the third was a collection of his diary entries across his life. The three versions read so differently that one felt that it is impossible to sum up a life with a chronology.( page 9 to
Plot (Give the plot of the book in no more than 15 lines.) A retiree doctor, Geoffrey Braithwaite an English doctor who tells a biographical novel of his life. He has three different stories to tell; Flaubert’s one, his wife Ellen and revealing facts about himself. He shows his captivation for Flaubert’s particular details of his job. Geoffrey founds out that there are two galleries that say that they have pieces from who Flaubert declares he is the propietor of, being himself who once filled the parrot that Flaubert’s one time took from the museum of Natural History. Geoffrey ends up knowing that the two museus have taken one parrot out of fifty from a collection in the museum without being aware of what item he had taken from the collection. When Geoffrey is looking for Flaubert, he finds that he is implicated with Juliet Herbert, but in fact was Ed Winterton who tried to liquidate the possible confirmation of their romance. Geoffrey discovers that Flaubert didn’t experience tht life he claims to have lived, and that didn’t wrote some books he did said to have written, which that leads to think about his own life. This real fascination for Flaubert affects his own relationship with his wife. Ellen has had some realitonships outside her marriage, and Geoffrey starts to think about dead and has some blurring disorders in his mind, having some mental battles. Geoffrey has to decide if he is content and pleased with his marriage or not, and if there was real love there. He starts to having some concerns about how he treated him her or if he did support her, although he knew there was no life for her. Events (Choose an event which is essential for the understanding of the story and two which are not so. Explain your choice.) “In our pragmatic and knowing century we probably find such ambition a little provincial (well, Turgenev did call Flaubert naïve). We no longer believe that language and reality 'match up' so congruently—indeed, we probably think that words give birth to things as much as things give birth to words. But if we find Flaubert naïve or—more likely—unsuccessful, we shouldn't patronise his seriousness or his bold loneliness. This was, after all, the century of Balzac and of Hugo, with orchidaceous Romanticism at one end of it and gnomic Symbolism at the other. Flaubert's planned invisibility in a century of babbling personalities and shrieking styles might be characterised in one of two ways: as classical, or modem. Looking back to the seventeenth century, or forward to the late twentieth century. Contemporary critics who pompously reclassify all novels and plays and poems as texts—the author to the guillotine!—shouldn't skip lightly over Flaubert. A
This location is where the hospital is now a museum, filled up with stuffed parrots, the model of Loulu. It was where Flaubert did work as a doctor. Loulou Loulou was Felicite's parrot in Un coeur simple. Flaubert did take the stuffed parrot from the museum of History so that he could sit on his desk while he was writting a novel. Geoffrey is now on a search to determine which parrot is the real Loulou. Characters and characterization Main and secondary characters (Classify the characters into main and secondary) Geoffrey is the narrator of Flaubert's Parrot. He is on a quest to find more about Gustave Flaubert. The novel is about his search for Flaubert, the truth about the two stuffed parrots, and himself. He is over sixty, and is a widowed doctor with two children. Geoffrey is an amateur Flaubert scholar. He has brown eyes and grey hair and is six feet one inches tall. Geoffrey lives in Essex, England and has been in the military. During the novel, he often visits Rouen to go to the Flaubert museums, where he meets with Ed Winterton and finds out about Flaubert's affair with Juliet Herbert. Geoffrey then tries to track down the parrot that Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Natural History. Geoffrey tells us that as a doctor, he didn't kill a single patient and that people trusted him. Gustave Flaubert is an extraordinary writer, a fascinating historical figure, and Barnes does not hide his devotion for this man capable of doing all the little skills and betrayals with irony, intelligence and exquisite sensitivity. He gets too involved in the personality of a historical figure and the final outcome of the story depends on the chosen point of view. The voice of the narrator corresponds to a widowed and francophile English doctor, an enthusiastic admirer of the work of Flaubert, who goes to Normandy to follow in his footsteps. In the sometimes banal narrative of Flemish discoveries, references to the doctor's own life are mixed with reluctance. Julie “Juliet Herbert is a great hole tied together with string. She became governess to Flaubert's niece Caroline at some time in the mid-1850s, and remained at Croisset for a few undetermined years; then she returned to London. Flaubert wrote to her, and she to him; they visited one another every so often. Beyond this, we know nothing. Not a single letter to or from her has survived. We know almost nothing
about her family. We do not even know what she looked like. No description of her survives, and none of Flaubert's friends thought to mention her after his death, when most other women of importance in his life were being memorialised.” page 18 “Biographers disagree about Juliet Herbert. For some, the shortage of evidence indicates that she was of small significance in Flaubert's life; others conclude from this absence precisely the opposite, and assert that the tantalising governess was certainly one of the writer's mistresses, possibly the Great Unknown Passion of his life, and perhaps even his fiancée. Hypothesis is spun directly from the temperament of the biographer. Can we deduce love for Juliet Herbert from the fact that Gustave called his greyhound Julio? Some can. It seems a little tendentious to me. And if we do, what do we then deduce from the fact that in various letters Gustave addresses his niece as 'Loulou', the name he later transfers to Félicité's parrot? Or from the fact that George Sand had a ram called Gustave?” pag 19. Characterization (Choose at least one character and analyse how he/she is presented in the book; give examples) The fragments that there are in the novel are good chosen and they take the reader to get to the complex of the personality of the writer. Even all that, they are not enough so that the reader can be submerged into the novel. In the novel the extracts are epistolar, which means they are, generally, all kind of short, with general irony as a unifying element because sometimes the voice of the doctor becomes all sadness. Geoffrey is the narrator of Flaubert's Parrot. He is on a quest to find more about Gustave Flaubert. The novel is about his search for Flaubert, the truth about the two stuffed parrots, and himself. He is over sixty, and is a widowed doctor with two children. Geoffrey is an amateur Flaubert scholar. He has brown eyes and gray hair and is six feet one inches tall. Geoffrey lives in Essex, England, has been in the military, and drinks whiskey on occasion. During the novel, he meets visits Rouen to go to the Flaubert museums, meets with Ed Winterton and finds out about Flaubert's affair with Juliet Herbert. Geoffrey then tries to track down the parrot that Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Natural History. Geoffrey tells us that as a doctor, he didn't kill a single patient and that people trusted him.
on the back of the wrist. Not a watch, as I first thought, or a tattoo, but a coloured transfer: the face of a political sage much admired in the desert. Let me start with the statue: the one above, the permanent, unstylish one, the one crying cupreous tears, the floppy-tied, square-waistcoated, baggy-trousered, straggle-moustached, wary, aloof bequeathed image of the man. Flaubert doesn't return the gaze. He stares south from the place des Carmes towards the Cathedral, out over the city he despised, and which in turn has largely ignored him. The head is defensively high: only the pigeons can see the full extent of the writer's baldness.” The voice of the narrator corresponds to a widowed and francophile English doctor, an enthusiastic admirer of the work of Flaubert, who goes to Normandy to follow in his footsteps. In the sometimes banal narrative of Flemish discoveries, references to the doctor's own life are mixed with reluctance. Speech representation (Give at least two examples of diegetic and mimetic speech representation in the book; explain them.) “When I met Ed at the restaurant, he was looking even less successful than before. He told me about budget cuts, a cruel world, and his own lack of publications. I deduced, rather than heard, that he had been sacked. He explained the irony of his dismissal: it sprang from his devotion to his work, his unwillingness to do Gosse anything less than justice when presenting him to the world. Academic superiors had suggested that he cut corners. Well, he wouldn't do so. He respected writing and writers too much for that. 'I mean, don't we owe these fellers something in return?' he concluded.” “Perhaps I offered slightly less than the expected sympathy. But then, can you alter the way luck flows? Just for once, it was flowing for me. I had ordered my dinner quickly, scarcely caring what I ate; Ed had pondered the menu as if he were Verlaine being bought his first square meal in months. Listening to Ed's tedious lament for himself and watching him slowly consume whitebait at the same time had used up my patience; though it had not diminished my excitement.” page 20. On these two p
Style (Choose at least a fragment from the book –approximately a page – and analyse its style by using some elements from the ‘checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories’ provided.) "Why does writing make us follow the writer's lead, why do not books suffice for us?" Flaubert wanted them to be enough: few writers have believed so firmly in the objectivity of the written text and the insignificance of the writer's personality And yet, we remain disobedient to our air: the image, the face, the signature, the statue with ninety-three percent copper and the photograph of Nadar, the little piece of clothing and the curl. relics make us so horny, do not we have enough in words? Do we believe that the remains of a life have an auxiliary truth? Flaubert’s Parrot is a configuration of the inner tiredness, but still, has a contradictiory discurse still alive. On one hand, it gives a lot of important details about life, character and ideas of Flaubert. I did like this passage because of how unconventional it is. When it talks about fiction and how it is possible that writers and poets guess what we are thinking or feeling centuries later. The novel recreates the entering of the writer inside the readers mind and anaylizing it’s emotional intelligence. He also gave a lot of importance to style – to finding the perfect sentence, the perfect word to describe exactly what he wanted. Points of View Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot is written in several points of view and styles. Some chapters use a first person narrative. Others use a third person omnipresent perspective. Although the novel problematizes our knowledge of the past, the narrator is reliable and trustworthy. Some chapters use a third person perspective. In most cases, these are the chapters where Barnes deviates from the typical fiction chapter. He includes a chapter that consists of a list of dates, a "dictionary" chapter, and an examination chapter. These chapters are unexpected in a work of fiction, but further the theme of the incompleteness of facts and the past. Other chapters use a first person narrative, most often from Geoffrey Braithwaite's perspective, although there is one chapter from Louise Colet's perspective. These chapters reveal the inner thoughts of the characters. In Louise Colet's chapter we also see her perspective about her relationship...
