El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot (Anagrama, 2019; Spanish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. El loro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Biblioteca Anagrama, 2019. Pp. 228 + [4]. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Antonio Mauri. ISBN: 9788433902245. (Spanish).

Issues as part of the “Compactos 50” series in April 2019.

Flauberts papegoja | Flaubert’s Parrot (Forum, 2018, Swedish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts papegoja | Flaubert’s Parrot. Stockholm: Forum, 2018. Pp. 239 + [1]. 22 x 14 cm. Translated by Ingvar Skogsberg. ISBN: 9789137153148. (Swedish).

To view all of Julian Barnes’s books on the Forum website, please visit: https://www.forum.se/forfattare/15307/julian-barnes/

Il pappagallo di Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot (Einaudi, 2015; Italian)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Il pappagallo di Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Torino: Einaudi, 2015. Pp. 225 + [7]. 20.8 x 13.4 cm. Translated by Susanna Basso. ISBN: 9788806227289. (Italian).

“Super ET”  edition.

Visit Einaudi’s author page for Julian Barnes here: https://www.einaudi.it/autori/julian-barnes/

Flaubert’s Parrot (Vintage Books, 2009)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 190 + [2]. 19.8 x 13 cm. ISBN: 9780099540083.

In 2009, Julian Barnes changed paperback publishers from Picador to Vintage Books.

Von Büchern & Menschen (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988; German)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Zehn Vorschläge.” Von Büchern & Menschen. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988. Pp. 176. 18 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 3627500024. (German).

Julian Barnes’s contribution, an excerpt from Flaubert’s Parrot, appears on pp. 96-99 and is translated by Michael Walter.

Postcard | Flaubert’s Parrot (Jonathan Cape, 1984)


Notes on this item: Postcard promoting Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot (Jonathan Cape, 1984). The postcard features a black and white reproduction of David Hockney’s Felicité Sleeping.

Papuga Flauberta | Flaubert’s Parrot (Czytelnik, 1992; Polish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Papuga Flauberta | Flaubert’s Parrot. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1992. Pp. 288 [289] + [3]. 15.1 x 10.1 cm. Translated by Adam Szymanowski. ISBN: 8307022428. (Polish).

Soho Square III | “Dirty Story: The Making of Madame Bovary” (Bloomsbury, 1990)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Dirty Story: The Making of Madame Bovary” Soho Square III. Edited by Alberto Manguel. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. Pp. 287 + [1]. ISBN: 0747507163.

Julian Barnes’s contribution appears on pp. 62-65.

Flaubert’s Parrot | Uncorrected Proof (Jonathan Cape, 1984)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Pp. 190 + [2]. 20.6 x 13.8 cm.

Uncorrected Proof in red paper covers with the Jonathan Cape logo, as pictured.

Flaubert’s Parrot | Unbound Proofs (Jonathan Cape, 1984; Author’s Copy)


Notes on this edition: Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

This unbound, loose sheet uncorrected galley proof is from Julian Barnes’s personal collection. Printed on one side of each sheet, two pages per page, landscape format. The unbound proof text matches the bound uncorrected proofs. The proof text is altered in places in the first hardback edition by Jonathan Cape (1984).