
Understanding Julian Barnes
Merritt Moseley(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 31. March 1997
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-57003-140-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Understanding Julian Barnes" surveys the career of an English writer best known as a strikingly innovative novelist. In this analysis of Barnes's distinctive qualities and of his place in England's literary establishment, Merritt Moseley suggests that Barnes's greatest achievement is his ability to resist summary and categorization by imagining each book in a dramatically original way. Evaluating the whole of Barnes's oeuvre, Moseley discusses the novelist's admiration for Gustave Flaubert, identifies his technical and thematic concerns, and explores the intrigue surrounding his divided career as a writer of serious novels, published under his own name, and of detective thrillers, published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. Moseley provides close readings of Barnes's book-length works, defending the writer against the charge that some of these volumes should not be considered novels at all and examining his commitment to writing books rich in the exploration of serious ideas.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 127 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-140-3 (9781570031403)
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