Through the window /

In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface), Julian Barnes examines the British, French, and American writers who have shaped his own writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Julian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage International, 2012.
Edition:First Vintage international edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • A life with books
  • The deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald
  • The 'unpoetical' Clough
  • George Orwell and the fucking elephant
  • Ford's 'The good soldier'
  • Ford and Provence
  • Ford's Anglican saint
  • Kipling's France
  • France's Kipling
  • The wisdom of Chamfort
  • The man who saved old France
  • The profile of Félix Fénéon
  • Michel Houellebecq and the sin of despair
  • Translating 'Madame Bovary'
  • Wharton's 'The reef'
  • Homage to Hemingway ; a short story
  • Lorrie Moore takes wing
  • Remembering Updike, remembering Rabbit
  • Regulating sorrow.