“In church, she stared at the Holy Spirit and noticed that he looked a little like a parrot. The similarity seemed striking to her in the Epinal image of Baptism. It was a living portrait of Lulu with his purple wings and emerald body... And when Felicite took her last breath, it seemed to her that in the open heavens a huge parrot was soaring above her head." It is possible that you will grin at this and say that the heroine of "Simple Flaubert's soul is absurdity and sick dreams. Yes, it's possible. But in this case, the search for harmony and faith - inside and around oneself - is also just absurdity and sick dreams. For each. For all. They just appear to someone in the form of a parrot. And who knows - maybe not only me and unfortunate Felicita...