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.
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New York :
Vintage International,
2012.
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| 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.