Julian Barnes is one of the most celebrated and most variously rewarding of Britain's younger writers--that is, those who were born in the late 1940s and began publishing in the late 1970s or the 1980...
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In the following review, Allen praises Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot.
In [Flaubert's Parrot] this free-form examination of the great French novelist's life and artistic pra...
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In the following review, Rubin lauds Barnes's ability to mix literary criticism and fiction in Flaubert's Parrot.
What have we here: literary criticism masquerading as fiction? Is Jul...
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In the following essay, Brooks analyzes the relationship between Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: ...
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On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician...
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For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its...
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For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its...
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Julian (Patrick) Barnes
Critical Review by Bruce Allen
Flaubert's Parrots
