Flaubert's Parrot de Julian Barnes Edited by Antoine Capet, Philippe Romanski, Nicole Terrien, Aïssatou Sy-Wonyu
google.translate of the original description in French: The purpose of the symposium, which brought together both Flaubert specialists and English specialists and comparativists was to ask questions about the book by Julian Barnes and not to confine it to the narrow responses would deny him his innovative literary identity. The various papers put, sometimes in French, sometimes in English highlight the rewriting work, ownership of the subtext (the work Flaubert), integration of the word of the other figures as well as some of the obsessive work of Barnes. The book ends with a conversation with Julian Barnes on the construction of his novel.
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