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On va introduire le texte de Barnes en partant d’une discussion qu’il a publié d’une remarque qu’il a faite sur la peinture de Jéricho « Le Radeau de la Méduse », et à propos de cette peinture il évoque la question de la catastrophe . ...
We have in Flaubert’s Parrot two quotations acknowledging a quote from one of Flaubert’s letters, and a translated quote from Flaubert. ... The quotation concerns the central figure of the Parrot. The Parrot is described very early in the novel : << a badly stuff bird with a ridiculous name >>. ... ), mais en même temps derrière cet aspect totalement bouleversant et bouleversé des choses nous avons un texte qui redevient un roman (qui est plus classique qu’on pourrait le croire, et qui reprend la tradition symbolique (« the parrot standing for one third of a trinity »). ...
Quels sont les grands paramètres qui doivent être examinés concernant la narration dans le roman de Barnes. ... To quote a critic (James Scott) : << In Flaubert ’s Parrot, the same discourse it demands for a significant death of Helen also could be said to create the discursive demand for either a murder or a suicide >>. ...
It is indeed the complexity of narration in a novel like Flaubert ’s Parrot because we are indeed confronted to a constant exchange between one kind of narrative and another. ... Flaubert ’s Parrot addresses truth but in terms of the deconstruction of identity, through biography writing closed to a scientific and historian research. ... This is also concealed by a constant reference to a simple symbol (the parrot). ...
A critic, Petman, says that : << In Flaubert ‘s parrot, the tension is between the apparent meaning and the structure. ...
The starting point which Petman proposes is to find the real motto for the parrot Loulou (cf : Un Coeur Simple, de Flaubert), this is the apparent meaning.
There are contradictory evidences and the parrot is clearly a talisman.
This search for the parrot fulfils the function of the structuring motive. ... Associating people, associating meanings has the emblematic symbol, the eponymous symbol of the parrot shows, because this emblem is highly polysemous. ... The parrot identification is indeed the guideline and the three main motives all convert to the self-identification problem, in other words a quest for knowledge and self-knowledge. ...
We stop here to talk about the parrot as an object (bird) and as a symbol. ... Indeed the parrot ironically overlaps the early story about Flaubert ‘s statues. The first parrot which appears is not the original one, it duplicates stone statues notably at Trouville. ... Like Flaubert, the parrot is the object of a quest and remains illusive.
The search for historic truth amongst a detective work examining evidence comparatively, so the parrot as a quest disappears after the first chapter to reappear at the end when the investigation produces the famous true story. ...
We have a long paragraph to the etymology of the parrot. Becoming almost systematic, the parrot is the only object remaining after and it is both present and absent, tracing the bird as a symbol leads up to its absence. ... The parrot regularly peeps him. Its duality is apparent from the start, the parrot is an example of Flaubertian grotesque; but for Félicité (the heroine of “Un Coeur Simple”) it becomes secret, it becomes the incarnation of the holly ghost.
The parrot assumes a metaphoric role in Louise Collet ‘s letters, expressing irritation at Flaubert ’s vanity she compares him to a parrot in white gloves, a late echo of the early remark when facing the first evidence of Flaubert elusiveness. He’s the writer much more than a sophisticated parrot. ...
But the parrot could also relate to a more positive aspect : the artist. The parrot representing cleverer vocalization without much power was pure word.
The parrot is perhaps a symbol of the logos, this also connects to Flaubert ’s emphasis, own style. ... So, the parrot as a symbol poses the problem of literature itself, that is the problem of the relationship between what is signified and what is said between the signified and the signifier. ... In its sophisticated dislocation of narrative unicity, Flaubert ’s Parrot exhibits the elusiveness of truth. ...
At the end of chapter one, finding the second parrot, we can talk about the question of the authenticity of the “gardienne” but also about the ironic dismissal of the question. ... The ambition is to pinpoint authenticity, that is to say the problem in which is the real parrot, which is Flaubert ‘s parrot but it derives towards few types of evidence. Parrot collecting characteristically overlaps linguistic investigation in words connected to animals. ... The constant problem approached through various examples (concerning, for instance, Flaubert’s death, the presence or the absence not only of the narrator but also of the author (Barnes)). ... It is an ontological tragedy and this overlaps Flaubert ’s existence and its emblem (the ever missing parrot, his life story). ... Emma Bovary a une fin tragique comme la femme du héros de « Flaubert ’s Parrot » (d’ailleurs elle a les mêmes initiales E et B). ... Les influences sont directes (polémique sur les yeux d’Emma (marron puis bleu) et une allusion sur la couleur de ceux de la femme du héros ; le leitmotive de « Flaubert ’s Parrot » : <> (cf « Madame Bovary »). ... Cela souligne la façon dont le roman de Barnes est devenu l’écriture du roman et cela est une métaphore du problème du sujet face à la réalité, face au réel (l’expression d’une destinée mortelle). ... This sophisticated construct contaminate the very object of the text (the parrot which survives in language like a sort of magic talisman). ... And, this method is a way to put forward the speaker as parrot, as foregrounding this immense self-consciousness. ... Barnes utilise la post-modernité pour aller plus loin. ... Le roman de Barnes n’est pas un simple jeu postmoderne, c’est aussi une réflexion sur un destin ontologique (finalement un rire grinçant).
Approximate Word count = 7482
Approximate Pages = 29.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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