Understanding Julian Barnes (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: August 31, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781570038754
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- British
First sentence: Since beginning his career as a novelist in 1980, Julian Barnes has been called "the chameleon of British letters"; a writer "like the teacher of your dreams: joky, metaphorical across both popular and unpopular culture, epigrammatic"; and, less admiringly, "a brilliant essayist whom fashion and financial logic directed towards the novel."