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  1. Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Vintage) by Julian Barnes, 2009-10-06
  2. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, 2007-01-09
  3. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes, 1990-11-27
  4. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes, 1990-11-27
  5. Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes, 1992-10-27
  6. Love, Etc by Julian Barnes, 2001-06
  7. The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes, 2005-04-05
  8. Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture by Julian Barnes, 2003-09-09
  9. England, England by Julian Barnes, 2000-04-11
  10. The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes, 2004-05-13
  11. The Porcupine (First edition) by Julian Barnes, 1992
  12. Cross Channel by Julian Barnes, 1997-02-11
  13. Talking It Over by Julian Barnes, 1992-10-27
  14. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, 2011-04-01

1. Julian Barnes - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker
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United Kingdom Occupation Novelist Nationality United Kingdom Genres Fictional prose Influences Gustave Flaubert Frank O'Connor Ford Madox Ford Website Official Website of Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19 in Leicester England ) is a contemporary English writer . He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize Flaubert's Parrot England, England (1998), and (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
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Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford , he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary . Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes , is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy He lives in London with his wife, the literary agent

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Julian Barnes at www.contemporarywriters.com Novelist Julian Barnes was born in Leicester on 19 January 1946 and was educated at the City of London School
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3. Julian Barnes --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Julian Barnes British television critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters
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in full Julian Patrick Barnes , pseudonyms Edward Pygge and Dan Kavanagh British television critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters curious about the past. Barnes attended Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1968), and began contributing reviews to the Times Literary Supplement Duffy Barnes, Julian... (75 of 224 words) To read the full article, activate your FREE Trial Commonly Asked Questions About Julian Barnes Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Julian Barnes , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

4. Powells.com Interviews - Julian Barnes
Julian and Arthur and George The usual Julian Barnes novel is a slim and elegant gem, containing provocative and illuminating perspectives on the human
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The usual Julian Barnes novel is a slim and elegant gem, containing provocative and illuminating perspectives on the human condition. From the linguistically playful, formally sophisticated Flaubert's Parrot to the compelling meditation on obsessive jealousy in Before She Met Me , to amusing cultural essays on France and Britain and urbane accounts of the vissitudes of erotic love, Barnes's work refuses to be catagorized. However, no matter the subject matter he displays a delightful dry wit, devastating intellingence, and an innate sense for the human condition in all its permeatations. Perhaps Joyce Carol Oates put it best when she said he has the imagination of a 'quintessential humanist, of the pre-postmodern species.'

5. Featured Author: Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes I don t mind being called a postmodernist, if it sounds upto-date. But it increasingly doesn t to my ear . . . Such formal innovations as
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    Jay McInerney: [In "Love, Etc.,"] I was expecting a neat mousetrap of sorts, a cerebral resolution, a clever working out of the fictional scheme. I think somehow I was trying to anticipate Julian's moves, Julian being such an innovator that the typical Barnesian reader like myself is sometimes too clever by half in trying to get the drop on the master.
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    Julian Barnes: I don't mind being called a postmodernist, if it sounds up-to-date. But it increasingly doesn't to my ear . . . Such formal innovations as are left to make in the novel come out of the demands of the story and the situation and the characters and so on, rather than out of any sense of position in literary history of the 21st century . . .
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    Julian Barnes: I don't know everything, and I wouldn't want to have everything planned in advance, because that would be like painting by numbers and I'd just be filling in the gaps. So it's that balance between objective control and knowledge and subjective imaginative flow where the juice and specialness of writing lies.
  • 6. Julian Barnes - Wikipedia
    Translate this page Julian Barnes ist seit vielen Jahren mit seiner ehemaligen Agentin Patricia Kavanagh verheiratet, für die in den meisten seiner Werke eine Widmung
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    Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Julian Patrick Barnes 19. Januar in Leicester ) ist ein englischer Schriftsteller Er gilt als Vertreter der Postmoderne . Unter dem Pseudonym Dan Kavanagh schrieb er auch Kriminalromane Alphonse Daudet und Gustave Flaubert Barnes ist seit etwa 1980 hauptberuflich Schriftsteller, vorher arbeitete er nach einem Sprachenstudium und einem sp¤teren Jurastudium als Lexikograph und Journalist. Die deutschen Ausgaben seiner Werke erscheinen seit 1999 bei , bis dahin wurden seine B¼cher bei Haffmans verlegt. Gesch¤tzt wird vor allem sein h¤ufig ironischer Erz¤hlton. In seinen Romanen Dar¼ber reden und Liebe usw. Faulkners Als ich im Sterben lag und Inoues Jagdgewehr findet). Vor allem sein Romanwerk wurde mit bedeutenden Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. In Frankreich erhielt er 1986 den Prix M©dicis (eigentlich ein Sachbuchpreis) f¼r Flauberts Papagei und 1992 den Prix Femina ‰tranger f¼r Dar¼ber reden . 1993 wurde er mit dem Shakespeare-Preis der Hamburger Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.

    7. Julian Barnes - Wikiquote
    From Wikiquote. Jump to navigation, search. Julian Barnes (b. 19 January 1946) British novelist and short story writer.
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      • I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they must be authentic').
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          • Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.
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    8. Julian Barnes
    Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes AKA Julian Patrick Barnes. Born 19Jan-1946 Birthplace Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Gender Male
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    Executive summary: Flaubert's Parrot Wife: Pat Kavanagh
    High School: City of London School
    University: BA, Magdalen College, Oxford University (1968)
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    Deputy Literary Editor, Sunday Times (1979-81) The Observer TV Critic (1982-86) Official Website: http://www.julianbarnes.com/ Author of books: Metroland , novel) Fiddle City , novel, pseudo. Dan Kavanaugh) Before She Met Me , novel) Flaubert's Parrot , novel) Putting the Boot In , novel, pseudo. Dan Kavanaugh) Staring at the Sun , novel) A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters , novel) Duffy , novel, pseudo. Dan Kavanaugh) Going to the Dogs , novel, pseudo. Dan Kavanaugh) Talking it Over , novel) The Porcupine , novel) Letters from London , essays) Cross Channel , short stories) England, England

    9. The Mick Sinclair Archive: Julian Barnes
    JULIAN BARNES is the author of three books including the discreetly mysterious Flaubert s Parrot which made the 1984 Booker Teaze shortlist.
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    The Mick Sinclair Archive Julian Barnes February Zigzag feature JULIAN BARNES is the author of three books including the discreetly mysterious Flaubert's Parrot which made the 1984 Booker Teaze short-list. But he is possibly better known to the teeming masses as The Observer's TV critic (all teeming people read The Observer). Three and a half years ago Barnes succeeded Clive James who had wriggled, writhed and dozed in his fabled armchair since 1972. James is often thought of as the man who brought TV criticism into the present century. He filled his columns with his customary humour but also imbued them with a multi-browed appreciation which corresponded to the diverse output emanating from the box itself. Like James, like most TV critics, Barnes came to the post in a haphazard manner.

    10. BBC/OU Open2.net - Ian McMillan's Writing Lab - Julian Barnes Interview Transcri
    Julian Barnes talks about the process of starting a novel.
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    Need something to kick start the creative process? Open the inspiration file In programme one, Julian Barnes shared his insights on how he starts writing. You can hear more of the interview in our exclusive mp3 download . This is what he told us: I often don't know when I start a novel what the first scene is going to be. Just as there are writers who – I mean John Irving, the American novelist is one example, he always starts by writing the final scene of the book and then he knows where he's going to go, and then he can build the narrative towards that final scene. I've never done that, but I often start in the middle and it's often the process of writing the sort of the meat of the book will lead you to the opening scene. The scene at the start of Staring at the Sun with two sunrises, one after the other, which now once it's in place looks like that must have been where he started writing the book. I mean this is the illusion that you want to give the reader in any case, that the book is written in the order in which the reader reads it. I mean this is what, it's a natural illusion of the book and it's what the reader would naturally think unless told otherwise. But, in fact, it often doesn't work out like that at all and you discover the first pages or the first incident in the course of either writing it or, indeed, researching it.

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    13. ArtandCulture Artist: Julian Barnes
    Julian Barnes treats history with a whip of irony. An indignant yet playful voice streams through his novels, a voice that asks just how dependent we are on
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    Julian Barnes proves he is a daring writer who is willing to take risks for the sake of art in his book, The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters.
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    Julian Barnes proves he is a daring writer who is willing to take risks for the sake of art in his book, The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
    Julian Barnes proves he is a daring writer who is willing to take risks for the sake of art in his book, The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters . The book is neither a novel or short story, but a group of short stories that are dependent upon each other for full meaning. Like Susan Power’s, The Grass Dancer , and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and Tracks , Barnes creates a group of stories that are woven together to form a whole. Barnes work reads like a piece of non-fiction, but we know from the beginning it is fictionalized. The mixing of history—I was going to write historical fact, but who is to say what is fact, the wood worms or the humans—creates a unique work of fiction that is best described as post-modern new-journalism; the re-enactment of history from various points-of-view, while blending fact and fiction, and writing in a post-modern style. Most of the critics agreed with my analysis of Barnes as a most modern new journalism. In the December 4, 1989 New Republic Richard Locke agrees with my theories about Barnes, but feels the book has failed.

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    JULIAN BARNES Well, I’m rather surprised to be called a Desperado. I rather like the description (who wouldn’t?) but you make us (if there is an ‘us’,
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    Men of Letters ————— Samanth Subramanian More than a decade ago, over the course of three essays written for the New York Review of Books, Julian Barnes
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    Julian Barnes was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for his work, Arthur George. Barnes had achieved this accolade twice before with Flaubert s
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    English novelist Julian Patrick Barnes was born on 19 January 1946 in Leicester. After leaving Magdalen Colege, Oxford, Barnes became a lexicographer with OED Supplement from 1969 to 1972, from which time he filled a variety of high profile journalistic roles with the New Review, The New Statesman, The Observer, The Sunday Times and The New Yorker. In 1980 Metroland was published. It won the Somerset Maughan Award the following year and established Julian Barnes as a writer. Since then Barnes had written numerous books mainly under his own name but also as Dan Kavanagh. His wife is the literary agent Pat Kavanagh.
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    Julian Barnes Arthur George is a novel that sent me scurrying to the thesaurus, searching for just the right adjective to describe it.
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    Julian Barnes' is a novel that sent me scurrying to the thesaurus, searching for just the right adjective to describe it. 'Accomplished' might be a good wordwithout resorting to flowery and interminable description, is an impressive and convincing recreation of its era. 'Precise' might be anotherevery word in its place, and each one doing exactly what Barnes intended it to do, no more and no less. And then there are all the adjectives I can't use to describe the bookwords like 'grand', 'exciting', 'passionate'. , in other words, is the sort of book I could easily see placing on the shortlist for a major award, in recognition of everything it does right. And just as easily, I can see how it would be the first book to get knocked off the list when the time came to choose the winner, because of all of the things it doesn't try to do at all.
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    The book's title, and even its cover design, which depicts two men standing together in silent camaraderie, suggests that Barnes' focus is the relationship between Arthur and George. In truth, the two don't even meet until more than halfway through the novel, and spend very little time together after that initial meeting. George never plays Watson to Arthur's Holmes (and frankly, if there's a Holmes between the two it is the dispassionate, observant George), and the interactions between them are never more than polite. Barnes is far more concerned with describing the two men as individualsGeorge, brought up in quiet asceticism, an unimaginative and asocial man; Arthur, driven by notions of honor and chivalry, given to grand gestures and elaborate demonstrations of affection.

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