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'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight;
I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives.
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.
VINDER AF BOOKER-PRISEN 2011Tony Webster og hans klike var tre. Adrian Finn blev den fjerde. Skolen var en ren drengeskole. Sultne efter sex og bøger styrede de gennem gymnasietiden sammen udvekslede følelser jokes sladder og viden. Måske var Adrian mere seriøs end de andre; han var helt sikkert klogere. Men de fire lovede hinanden venskab for livet og skiltes. Studierne kalder. Tony bliver kæreste med Veronica. Vi er i tresserne. Den seksuelle revolution har ingen rigtig oplevet. Som Tony konstaterer: De fleste mennesker oplevede først tresserne i halvfjerdserne. Det må rent logisk betyde at de fleste mennesker der levede i tresserne stadig oplevede halvtredserne.Nu er Tony midaldrende. Han har haft en karriere et ægteskab og en skilsmisse. Han fortæller om sin ungdom sin affære med Veronica vennen Adrians tidligedød sit forliste ægteskab. Men erindringen er nu engang mangelfuld. Det kommer et overraskende brev fra en advokat til at bevise. Fyrre år efter affæren medVeronica får Tony at vide at han er blevet testamenteret en arv fra Veronicas mor. Men hvorfor? Ud over en sum penge vil han også blive overdraget den for længst afdøde Adrians dagbog. Problemet er at dagbogen befinder sig hos Veronica som nægter at udlevere den til ham.Julian Barnes f. 1946 er forfatter til ti romaner. De fleste er udgivet i dansk oversættelse bl.a. Flauberts papegøje (1987) En verdenshistorie i 10½ kapitel (1990) og senest romanen Arthur & George (2008). Barnes har tillige skrevet tre novellesamlinger. Over kanalen (1997) og Citronbordet (2006) er udkommet på dansk den tredje Pulse er på vej. I 2010 udkom det selvbiografiske essay Ikke noget at være bange for som på én gang er et portræt af en familie (hans egen) og en refleksion over dødelighed og livets afslutning.På dansk udkom senest Som jeg ser det Julian Barnes rigt illustrerede essays om billedkunst (2011) eksklusivt udgivet i Danmark. Om den skrev pressen bl.a.:Kompakt lærd klogt og forrygende & Man bliver klogere på kunst og klogere på livet af at læse Barnes indsigtsfulde essays.Fyens StiftstidendeEn begavet og begejstret hyldest til fransk åndsliv og den modernistiske billedkunst.Politiken
Papegøjen i denne romans titel er en udstoppet fugl, som den store franske forfatter Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) havde stående foran sig på sit skrivebord, da han i 1870 erne skrev historien om en gammel tjenestepige. Denne fugl spiller en afgørende rolle for romanens hovedperson, en pensioneret læge, der vil vide alt om Flauberts liv.Julian Barnes følger sin excentriske hovedperson på hans jagt efter sandheden om den forgudede forfatter. Fra Flauberts seksuelle debut til alderdommens tab af hår og tænder. Fra 1850ernes Rouen og helt ind i soveværelset hos Flauberts veninde Louise. Bogen udkom på engelsk 1984, og den danske oversættelse kom 1987 på forlaget Tiderne Skifter.Den ihærdige amatørforsker citerer flittigt fra Flauberts bøger og breve. Moderne litteraters naragtige meninger om den berømte forfatter spiddes med satanisk ironi. Men Braithwaite har også selv en historie som han nødtvungent må afsløre. Om sit ægteskab. Om sin kone. Som han elskede men var ham utro og så tog sit eget liv. En sorg han ikke kan komme over og heller ikke finde ord for. Julian Barnes (f. 1946) er en af Englands mest læste forfattere. Stort set hele hans forfatterskab bestående af romaner essays og noveller foreligger i dansk oversættelse. Efteråret 2011 fik Barnes årets Man Booker Prize for sin seneste roman Når noget slutter (2011).
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.
Den nittenårige Paul møder Susan Macleod en sommer i 60’erne, da han er hjemme fra universitetet for at besøge sin familie. Susan er otteogfyrre, selvsikker, ironisk og en gift mor til to næsten voksne døtre. Snart – og tilsyneladende uundgåeligt – bliver Paul og Susan elskere. Senere flytter de sammen til London for at slippe væk fra Pauls forældre og Susans voldelige mand. Årtier senere er Susan død, og Paul ser nu tilbage på deres liv sammen. Han husker forelskelsen, hvordan han befriede hende fra et dødt ægteskab, og hvordan – gradvist og nådesløst – det hele faldt fra hinanden. Den eneste historie er en skarpsindig fortælling, der beskriver, hvordan vores erindringer kan forbløffe, svigte og overraske os – hvordan den allerførste forelskelse kan ende med at determinere et helt liv.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. It reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.
In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
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.
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations.
Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table', it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of the characters is facing death, but each in a very different way.
Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women;
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes.
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in.
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