Beginning with an ending : authorial representation and the postmortem search from Flaubert’s parrot to Arthur & George

• Main Author: Goh, Qi Wei
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61048
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Author fictions, or fictions about historical authors, have often been regarded as exclusively postmodern. While this might be true for works like Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), the author’s later novel, Arthur & George (2005), does not partake in the same paradoxical and self-reflexi...