The article examines the narrative strategy of J. Barnes’s novel “Flaubert’s Parrot” as a reinterpretation and description of repeated motives, images and ideas beyond the author’s comments. The author’s narrative strategy in this work focuses on reader communication as a narrative space. In contact with the work, the reader re-evaluates the work, re-perceives and understands it. Usually, such a narrative text space is built on the principle of deciphering the author’s code, re-understanding it. The author of the article interprets this narrative strategy as the active participation of the reader and the reconstruction of the semantics of the work.