The Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot is actually a very interesting read so far. The experience of reading this book, and probably for other postmodern books, is very different from almost any other style of writing. It is almost like reading a magazine or a book of short stories, yet with a semi-coherent story that seems to run through the whole novel. A good way to think about it, with all of the post modernism I've ever read( which is not very much), is there is a back bone , the story, and then there are various ribs, which are the random stories and chapters, that are sometimes based off the story. Sometimes these off shoots are based off of and consistent with the main story. This style is very fun to read and I enjoy it, for its simplistic material that is explained through a highly complex method.