“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
Julian Barnes,福樓拜的鸚鵡（Flaubert's Parrot）湯永寬譯，上海：譯文，2005
精裝約twd 70，價錢可能是兩年前臺灣版本的1/6（福婁拜的鸚鵡, 朱利安．拔恩斯/著, 麥田, 2004/02/15, $405. 3）。
2004
福樓拜：「為朋友立傳時，寫法要像報復他似的。」【為他報復」（taking revenge for him）譯成「報復他」（書首引文）】Flaubert may have had in mind when he wrote to Ernest Feydeau, ''When you write the biography of a friend, you must do it as if you were taking revenge for him.''