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From: Christian Science Monitor[(review date 12 March 1985) In the following review, Allen praises Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot.] In [Flaubert's Parrot] this free-form examination of the great French novelist's life and artistic practice, amateur...
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From: The New Republic[In the following essay, Wood reviews Cross Channel .] Two landscapes, one American and one English, from roughly the same period. The American landscape is seen by Willa Cather in My Antonia (1918), and the English...
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From: The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fokkema situates Flaubert’s Parrot and several other postmodernist works within the context of Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author” (1967).] There are brief and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The much-quoted glowing tribute paid to Julian Barnes by Carlos Fuentes has given him the reputation—by no means entirely undeserved—of being the most literary, the most intellectual and above all the most international...
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From: London Review of Books[(review date 4 January 1996) In the following review, Furbank calls Cross Channel "perhaps Barnes's most assured work so far."] It was Wittgenstein's objection to Freud and his Interpretation of Dreams that the...
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From: The Fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson and Carter: Breaking Cultural and Literary Boundaries in the Work of Four Postmodernists[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Rubinson focuses on how Barnes approaches questions of history in his fiction, noting that many of his characters “grapple” with the “knowability” of the past.] Julian Barnes...
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From: Hudson Review[(essay date Winter 2000) In the following excerpt, Flower complains that Barnes's England, England "does not live up to the searching questions with which it begins."] Being judgmental must surely be one of the most...
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From: American, British and Canadian Studies, Special Issue: Worlds Within Words: Twenty-First Century Visions on the Work of Julian Barnes[(essay date December 2009) In the following essay, Candel examines and refutes the form of Christianity that Barnes depicts in his novel Nothing to Be Frightened Of.] Nothing to Be Frightened Of carries to excess...
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From: The Nation[The narrator of Flaubert's Parrot], a retired, widowed doctor named Geoffrey Braithwaite, asks some pretty big [questions]: “Does life improve?” “What knowledge is useful, what knowledge is true?” and (his constant...
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From: Christian Science Monitor[(review date 10 January 1990) In the following review, Rubin provides a tempered assessment of Barnes's A History of the World in 10[frac12] Chapters.] "I am on a storm-tossed boat out at sea, the dark waves around...
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From: Chicago Tribune[(review date 3 January 1993) In the following review, Gosswiller asserts that the style of Barnes's The Porcupine is different from his earlier novels due to its subject matter.] A truly powerful short novel is a rare...
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From: Essays in Arts and Sciences[(essay date October 2001) In the following essay, Gitzen compares the works of de Botton, particularly How Proust Can Change Your Life, with the fiction of Julian Barnes.] One of the most inventive English novelists...
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From: Paris Review[(interview date winter 2000) In the following interview, Guppy asks Barnes about his past, his writing process, and his opinions about other authors.] Julian Barnes lives with his wife Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent,...
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From: Understanding Julian Barnes[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Moseley discusses the unorthodox structure of the novel Flaubert’s Parrot and addresses the question, often raised by scholars, of whether or not the book is a novel or...
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From: Anglistik[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Kusek revisits questions of labelling, genre, and categorization in regard to Barnes’s writing, noting ways Barnes experimented with structure in Flaubert’s Parrot, Levels of...
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From: British Writers[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Birkerts provides an overview of Barnes's career and major works.] Julian Barnes once remarked--or, better, proclaimed--that "in order to write, you have to convince yourself...
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From: Missouri Review[(interview date 24 January 2006) In the following interview, conducted on January 24, 2006, Barnes discusses Arthur & George in the context of the historical novel as well as Barnes's critical and journalistic work. The...
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From: Hudson Review[(review date summer 2006) In the following review excerpt, Wilhelmus reviews Arthur & George, giving a plot summary and discussing the concept of the instructional historical novel.] Another work that relies heavily...
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From: Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of Transcultural Narratives[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Ascari analyzes elements of postmodern irony and the “critical playfulness” of Barnes’s approach to biography in Flaubert’s Parrot.] Due to its jocular attitude to tradition,...
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From: The British and Irish Novel Since 1960[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Higdon analyzes some of the contributions to fictional structure made by Julian Barnes and Graham Swift.] Who will be for the British novel of the 1980s what John Fowles and...