Julian Barnes





Julian Barnes

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January 19, 1946

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Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize--- Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.

Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy.

He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20...more


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Julian Barnes's new book Levels of Life will be issued in a limited edition by the London Review Bookshop. This is an exclusive limited first edition of Levels of Life, signed before publication by the author and published in association with Jonathan Cape.

There are 50 copies only (plus 3 hors commerce), 35 of which have been quarter-bound in Harmatan Black fine leather and Duo Linde cloth Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.69 · 78,603 ratings · 10,007 reviews · 39 distinct works · Similar authors
The Sense of an Ending
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 49,848 ratings — published 2011 — 65 editions
Arthur & George
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,271 ratings — published 2005 — 53 editions
A History of the World in 1...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 4,991 ratings — published 1989 — 51 editions
Flaubert's Parrot
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 4,423 ratings — published 1984 — 54 editions
Talking It Over
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,772 ratings — published 1991 — 34 editions
England, England
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,003 ratings — published 1998 — 29 editions
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,587 ratings — published 2008 — 32 editions
Love, etc.
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,280 ratings — published 1992 — 33 editions
Metroland
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 1980 — 19 editions
The Lemon Table
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 1996 — 29 editions
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

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