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Books About Julian Barnes
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Sebastian Groes & Peter Childs, Editors
Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives)
Continuum,
2011. Pp. 192
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From the Publisher:
Julian Barnes is one of the most admired
British writers of his generation. Although known primarily
as a novelist and essayist, the chameleon of British
letters has written with distinction across the widest
range of literary genres. Both he and his diverse and distinguished
body of work have been awarded numerous literary prizes
both in the UK and abroad. This critical guide provides
a wide range of current critical perspectives on Barnes's
work from best-selling novels of the 1980s, Flauberts
Parrot and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters,
up to his recent memoir Nothing to be Frightened of.
Including contributions by some of the finest critics working
in the contemporary field, it reflects the richness and
diversity of one of Britain's greatest living writers.
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Contents
Foreword
Chronology of Julian Barnes's Life
Introduction: Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainity
/ Sebastian Groes and Peter Childs
1. The Flâneur and the Freeholder:
Paris and London in Metroland / Matthew Taunton
2. Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Flaubert's
Parrot / Ryan Roberts
3. A preference for things Gallic: Julian Barnes
and the French Connection / Vanessa Guignery
4. An Ordinary Piece of Magic: Religion in the
Work of Julian Barnes / Andrew Tate
5. Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France
in Julian Barness Talking It Over / Merritt Moseley
6. Stranger Than Fiction: an epistolary essay
on The Porcupine / Dimitrina Kondeva
7. England, England and Englishness / Richard Bradford
8. Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian
Barnes / Peter Childs
9. All Letters Quoted are Authentic: The Past
after Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barness Arthur
& George / Christine Berberich
Afterword / Andrew Lycett
Index
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Peter Childs
Julian Barnes (Contemporary British Novelists)
Manchester
University Press, 2011. Pp. 166
From the Publisher:
Peter Childs's Julian Barnes is
a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that
situates Barnes's 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 Barness fiction, including art, authorship,
history, love and religion. The book is very lucidly written,
and it is also satisfyingly comprehensive - alongside the
'canonical' Barnes texts, it includes brief but illuminating
discussion of the crime fiction that Barnes has published
under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. This detailed study of
fictions of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur
& George also benefits from archival research into
his unpublished materials.
The book will be a useful resource for
scholars, postgraduates and undergraduates working in the
field of contemporary literature.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editors Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction : Pleasure in Form
1. About to be less deceived: Metroland
2. Silly to Worry About: Before She Met Me
3. What happened to the truth is not recorded: Flauberts
Parrot
4. Intricate Rented World: Staring at the Sun
5. Safe for Love: A History of the World in 10½
Chapters
6. Tell me Yours: Talking it Over and Love, etc.
7. We wont get fooled again: The Porcupine
8. History doesnt relate: England, England
9. Retrospectively Imagined Memorials: Cross Channel
and The Lemon Table
10. Conviction and Prejudice: Arthur & George
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Conversations with Julian Barnes collects
eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades,
by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with
the author (b. 1946) of such highly praised novels as Flauberts
Parrot and Arthur & George. The interviews
collectively address the entirety of Julian Barness
varied works and provide readers the most vivid portrait yet
of contexts and influences behind his ten novels, his short
stories, and his essays. The interviews focus not only on
the authors fiction but also on his essays, translations,
and pseudonymous writings. Barness evolving understanding
of the themes developed in his works (history, truth, love,
art, and death), his views on the art of the writing process,
and the role of authors in contemporary society are also discussed
at length.
Conversations with Julian Barnes
Edited by Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts
University Press of Mississippi, April 2009. Pp. 212
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Reviews:
Bursey, Jeff. RAINTAXI
online, Spring 2010: "There is much to mull over
in this comprehensive and worthwhile collection that will
give new and old readers of Barness work a greater appreciation
for his erudition and geniality."
Peters, Arjan. "Vreugde
en verdriet der conversatie." de Volkskrant,
21 August 2009.
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Frederick M. Holmes
Julian Barnes (New British Fiction)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. 176
From the Publisher: "This book
presents an accessible introduction to the work of Julian
Barnes which places it in historical and theoretical context.
It presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to
all of Barnes' publications to date. It includes a timeline
of important dates to help place new British fiction in context.
It also provides an overview of the varied critical reception
his work has provoked. This guide explores his characteristic
literary techniques, offers extensive readings of all ten
novels and provides an overview of the varied critical reception
his work has provoked."
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Vanessa
Guignery
The Fiction of Julian Barnes: A Reader's Guide to Essential
Criticism
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 240
Vanessa
Guignery has written extensively about Julian Barnes,
including her most recent book, The Fiction Of Julian Barnes
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Her insightful and scholarly critiques
of Barnes's works are complemented by accessible writing and
a genuine understanding of the author. Covers all novels from
Metroland through Arthur & George. This
book should be read by anyone studying Barnes's work.
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Matthew Pateman
Julian Barnes: Writers and Their Work
Northcote House, 2002. Pp. 106
A terrific resource that examine the works
of Julian Barnes from Metroland through Love, etc.
Matthew Pateman offers straightforward commentary of the novels,
while retaining a high level of scholarship and interpretation.
A must-read for anyone studying Barnes's work.
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Bruce Sesto
Language, History, And Metanarrative In the Fiction of
Julian Barnes (Studies In Twentieth-Century British Literature,
Vol. 3)
Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. 136
Bruce Sesto's book offers moderate insight
into Barnes's work. Covering Metroland through The
Porcupine, the work is essentially Sesto's dissertation
published in the mid-1990s. Contains a few errors, but otherwise
a harmless examination of Barnes's work. Considering the price,
try consulting other works before attempting this one.
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Merritt Moseley
Understanding Julian Barnes
Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 198
Merritt Moseley's
book represents perhaps the first book-length study of Barnes's
work. Moseley covers Metroland through The Porcupine,
including some short stories and Barnes's pseudonymous work
as Dan Kavanagh. Written at a basic level, this book offers
a nice introduction to Barnes's major works and themes.
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