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    Julian Barnes

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    Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65] ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #life

    But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #business

    And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #life #life

    You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #change

    Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #art

    If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue? ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #humor

    Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #decay #religion #religion

    The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #dead-people #writing #friendship

    Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #death #life #age

    how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop. ↗


    — Julian Barnes

    #read #life






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    Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
    1981 Somerset Maugham Award


    List of works
    Novels
    Metroland (1980)
    Before She Met Me (1982)
    Flaubert's Parrot (1984) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    Staring at the Sun (1986)
    A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)
    Talking It Over (1991)
    The Porcupine (1992)
    England England (1998) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    Love etc (2000) – sequel to Talking it Over
    Arthur & George (2005) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize
    The Sense of an Ending (2011) – winner of the Booker Prize
    Collections and non-fiction
    Letters from London (Picador London 1995) – journalism from The New Yorker ISBN 0-330-34116-2
    Cross Channel (1996) – stories
    Something to Declare (2002) – essays
    The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003) – journalism on cooking
    The Lemon Table (2004) – stories
    Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) – memoir
    Pulse (2011) – stories
    Through the Window (2012) – essays
    Works as Dan Kavanagh
    Duffy (1980)
    Fiddle City (1981)
    Putting the Boot In (1985)
    Going to the Dogs (1987)


    Further reading
    Peter Childs Julian Barnes (Contemporary British Novelists) Manchester University Press (2011)
    Sebastian Groes & Peter Childs eds. At the age of 10 Barnes was told by his mother that he had "too much imagination". England England is a humorous novel that explores the idea of national identity as the entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight that duplicates the tourist spots of England.

    Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is a contemporary English writer. Barnes has also won several literary prizes in France including the Prix Médicis for Flaubert's Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking It Over.

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