Julian Barnes FLAUBERT’S PARROT

To Pat

When you write the biography of a friend, you must do it as if you were taking revenge for him.

Flaubert, letter to Ernest Feydeau, 1872

Note

I am grateful to James Fenton and the Salamander Press for permission to reprint the lines from ‘A German Requiem’ on this page. The translations in this book are by Geoffrey Braithwaite; though he would have been lost without the impeccable example of Francis Steegmuller.

J.B.

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