The Perroquet of Flaubert", by Julian Barnes

The book, translated by Jean Guiloineau and Jean-Pierre Aoustin, begins by exposing the investigation to which an English doctor specialized in Flaubert (1821-1880) is going to go. It is recommended that anyone who is about to read Flaubert's Perroquet, republished forty years after its first publication in France, should bring a pen and not be afraid to corner the pages (one in two). Precaution of use that imposes so much intelligence, humor, a…