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Through the Window

Through the Window

Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

by Julian Barnes
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2012

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From one of Britain's greatest writers comes a brilliant collection of essays on the writers that have meant the most to him

In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes in his preface, 'Novels tell us the most truth about life- what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.'

When his Letters from London came out in 1995, the Financial Times called him 'our best essayist'. This wise and deft collection confirms that judgment.
ISBN:
9780099578581
9780099578581
Category:
Prose: non-fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2012
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x19mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and The Noise of Time. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur.

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