Papagalul lui flaubert biography

The book looks like a biography, but the narrator is not Julian Barnes himself, instead, it is a fictional amateur Gustave Flaubert expert Geoffrey Braithwaite.
In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns.

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Urmuz

Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant (1883–1923)

Urmuz Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău
Urmuz, c. 1920
Born	(1883-03-17)March 17, 1883 Curtea de Argeș, Kingdom of Romania
Died	November 23, 1923(1923-11-23) (aged 40) Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Pen name	Ciriviș, Hurmuz
Occupation	writer, humorist, judge, clerk
Nationality	Romanian
Period	c. 1908–1923
Genre	Absurdist fiction, antinovel, aphorism, experimental literature, fable, fantasy literature, mythopoeia, nonsense verse, parody, sketch story
Literary movement	Avant-garde Futurism

Urmuz (Romanian pronunciation:[urˈmuz], pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, also known as Hurmuz or Ciriviș, born Dimitrie Dim. Ionescu-Buzeu; March 17, 1883 – November 23, 1923) was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for severa

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The Observer, in short

Lead article
Carmen Musat comments on last week’s protest letter (Cultural Observer, No. 63). Beyond the problems at the Institute of History and Literary Theory „G. Calinescu,” Musat underlines the acute need for professionals in Romanian culture and politics.

Politics
In the face of rejection by the Russian Federation, Sabina Fati discusses Romania’s poor strategies for creating a Romania-Moldavia partnership in the EU.
Ciprian Ciucu comments on President Traian Basescu’s use of his constitutional power, which ought to be seconded by a strong administrative council for the sake of legitimacy.

The event of the week
Gina Serbanescu presents the Special Performance of Contemporary Dance „Razvan Mazilu.” The performance took place on Monday, March 12th, at the Bucharest National Opera and is part of the Dance Energy project.

In memoriam
Maria-Magdalena Crisan commemorates two important Romanian artists who died last week in Paris: the painter Ion Nicodim (1932-2007) and the sculptor Ovidiu Maitec (1925-2007).

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Flaubert's Parrot

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

"Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear, distant, savage and solitary. I went along with this, I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie; but perhaps he was really just a parrot." Flaubert's Parrot, p.151

Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the mast keep changing the color of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of style and imagination?

In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a look at the perverse autopsies that readers perform on books and lovers perform on their beloved; and a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both scholarly and romantic.

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