Julian Barnes
By: Peter Childs
Series: Contemporary British novelists
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780719081064
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: This is a comprehensive introductory overview of Julian Barnes's 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).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-161) and index.