“Witty and dazzling!”
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“A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!”
“Brilliant and witty.”
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“Delightful and enriching… a book to revel in!”
“A small miracle of a novel that tantalizes and charms.”
“The pleasure in this book lies in the way Barnes circulates among his historical and imaginary characters and in his agile writing strategies.”
“What a good book Julian Barnes has written!… So clever and so sensitive at once.”
“A wonderful reading experience.”
“Barnes speak to anyone who loves the possibilities of literature.”
“In this free-form examination of the great French novelist’s life and artistic practice, amateur scholarship, cranky partisanship, and a passionate effort at self-understanding are amusingly assembled into a resonant literary comedy.”
“It is a cranky, brilliant book.”
About the Author
Born in Leicester, England, in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and collections of essays. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina, and in 1988 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.
ARTHUR & GEORGE
THE LEMON TABLE
SOMETHING TO DECLARE
LOVE, ETC.
ENGLAND, ENGLAND
CROSS CHANNEL
LETTERS FROM LONDON
THE PORCUPINE
TALKING IT OVER
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10? CHAPTERS
STARING AT THE SUN
BEFORE SHE MET ME
METROLAND
Copyright
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, DECEMBER 1990
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, Ltd., London, in 1984 and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1985.
“Flaubert’s Parrot” was first published in the
