Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and One Short Story)

Informationen zum Autor Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending , which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story . He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur. Klappentext 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 National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, the author considers what fiction is, and what it can do. Zusammenfassung 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 National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, the author considers what fiction is, and what it can do.

Relazione

So elegant is Barnes' prose that it's easy to overlook his comic talents...this is Barnes cementing his reputation as a lively, curious reader as well as one of Britain's best living writers. Tom Cox Sunday Times, Books of the Year

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julian Barnes
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780099578581
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957858-1
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 131 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Diaries, letters & journals, Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers