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Understanding Julian Barnes
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ISBN: 058533630X 9780585336305 1570031401 Year: 1997 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press


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Julian Barnes
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ISBN: 1781700028 1847794564 9781781700020 9781847794567 9780719081064 0719081068 184779761X 0719097606 Year: 2011 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre together (love, death, art, history, truth, and memory). Chapters provide detailed reading of each major publication in turn while treating the major concerns of Barnes's fiction, including art, authorship, history, love and religion. The book is very lucidly writte


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Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives
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ISBN: 147254255X 1283129612 9786613129611 1441159584 9781441159588 9781441130082 144113008X 9781441152220 9781283129619 6613129615 1441152229 9781441152220 9781472542557 9781441161437 1441161430 Year: 2011 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. Although primarily a novelist and essayist, thechameleon of British letters has also written short stories, television scripts and a screenplay. This critical guide provides a wide range of current critical perspectives on Barnes work from early bestselling novels Flauberts Parrot and The History of the World in 10 Chapters up to Arthur and George. Including contributions by some of the finest critics

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