Flubber parrot

Gustave Flaubert borrowed an Amazonian parrot and placed it on his writing table for a brief period, then returned it. This parrot appeared in his book "Three Tales" where a strange relationship developed between the parrot and a desperate woman, reaching the point of reverence. Now, after all those years, a retired and widowed doctor, Jeffrey Brethwit, an enthusiast of Flaubert's worlds, asks: where is that green Amazonian parrot, with a golden neck and pink tips on its wings? Jeffrey, in his journey to see the stuffed parrots in museums dedicated to Flaubert's artifacts, finds two parrots that puzzle him, along with many objects and pieces of information that surprise the reader, raising questions so profound that they might change his opinions and perspective on writing and reading: Did Flaubert discover the realistic school immediately after returning from his visit to Egypt, "the East"? What is the secret of his hatred for critics and criticism? Was he a man of literary salons or a recluse in his rural home? What is loyalty and what is betrayal? Who is Flaubert, and who really is Madame Bovary? This novel established Julian Barnes's name in the literary arena as one of the strongest practitioners of postmodern narrative forms. While he interrogates Flaubert through his letters, he also broadcasts the voice of his lover whom he never married, searching for evidence as a researcher, while narrating fantasy and feeding it into possibilities as a truly brilliant storyteller and an authentic experimenter in writing.