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Note on this edition: Julian Barnes. Le perroquet de Flaubert Suivi de Changer d’avis | Flaubert’s Parrot and Changing My Mind. Stock, 2025. Pp. 342 + [10]. 21.3 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782234099159. (French).
Combined edition of Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot with his essays published as Changing My Mind, published in the la Cosmopolite line by Stock.
Includes a preface by Julian Barnes on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Flaubert’s Parrot, pp. 9-[18].
Notes on this edition: El lloro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2025. Pp. 281 + [6]. 23 x 15.1 cm. Translated by . ISBN: 9788429782424. (Catalan).
Introduction by Julian Barnes, pp. 7-16. The first Catalan edition was published in 1995.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2024. Pp. 228 + [4]. 20.4 x 13.4 cm. Translated by Antonio Mauri. ISBN: 9788433927170. (Spanish).
Second Compactos edition published in October 2024.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “El Loro de Flaubert” in El mejor humor inglés. Edited by Jorge Herralde. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2009. Pp. 162 + [6]. 22 x 14 cm. ISBN: 8437009299562. (Spanish).
This collection publishes an excerpt from Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot on pp. 77-92. Barnes’s excerpt is translated by Antonio Mauri.
Other authors included in the collection include: P. G. Wodehouse, Saki, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Sharpe, Roald Dahl, Alan Bennett, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Douglas Adams, and Nick Hornby.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
This review copy consists of a first American hardback edition supplemented with a promotional flyer, author photo, and a review slip from the publisher. The book is not stamped or otherwise marked as a “review” copy.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Romans. Edited by Vanessa Guignery. Quarto Gallimard, 2021. Pp. 1242 + [4]. 20.5 x 14 cm.
The Quarto edition includes translations of five Julian Barnes novels, including:
Le Perroquet de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot, translated by Jean Guiloineau
England, England, translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin
Arthur & George, translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin
Une Fille, Qui Danse, translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin
La Seule Histoire, translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin
Julian Barnes scholar Vanessa Guignery edited the volume, which includes an extremely detailed biographical chronology and essays titled “Au cœur de la création: une lecture des archives de Julian Barnes” and “Julian Barnes essayiste : un observateur de son temps et d’autrefois.”
The volume also contains numerous photographs and illustrations supplied by Julian Barnes and his bibliographer.
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes (جولیان بارنز). طوطی فلوبر | Flaubert’s Parrot. Tehran: Cheshmeh, 2016. Pp. 249 + [1]. 21.4 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Erfan Mojib. ISBN: 9786002296900. (Persian).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts papegaai | Flaubert’s Parrot. Amsterdam: L.J. Veen Klassiek, 2021. Pp. 234 + [6]. 21 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Else Hoog. ISBN: 9789020416633. (Dutch).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [朱利安·巴恩斯]. 福楼拜的 | Flaubert’s Parrot. Nanjing: 译林出版社 | Yilin Press, 2021. Pp. 269 + [3]. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Translated by 但汉松 (Dan Hansong). ISBN: 9787544786379. (Simplified Chinese).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Papuga Flauberta | Flaubert’s Parrot. Świat Książki, 2019. Pp. 270 + [2]. 20.7 x 13.1 cm. Translated by Adam Szymanowski. ISBN: . (Polish).