Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by the Australian writer Peter Carey . The book was published in 2009 under the title Parrot and Olivier in America and was translated into German by Bernhard Robben in 2010 .
The novel tells the life story and adventure of an unequal couple, a hypersensitive, snooty French aristocrat and his clever servant, the homeless son of an English traveling printer, a highly talented engraver and a passionate bird watcher who, with the help of a seedy aristocrat and banknote counterfeiter and an overconcerned mother, tied their fate together that struck America in the 1830s.
The historical background of the novel is the social upheavals of the early 19th century, the revolution and restoration in France, the old wrangling between England and France for dominance in Europe and overseas, the English penal colonies in Australia and finally the young America in its mood of economic optimism and its Try to set up democratic structures.
The novel is inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville's stay in America, when he was commissioned by the French government to investigate the prison system there.
expenditure
- Parrot and Olivier in America . Novel. From the English by Bernhard Robben . Frankfurt a. M. 2010. ISBN 978-3-10-010234-8