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Through the Window

By Julian Barnes

Through the Window Contemporary literature

Through the Window

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain's greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface, "A Life with Books"), Julian Barnes examines the British, French and American writers who have shaped his writing, 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, "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."
Product details
Release Date:
2014-06-17
Publication Date:
2014-06-17
Publisher:
Brilliance Audio
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1491532793
ISBN13:
9781491532799
Weight:
77 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
170 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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