Julian Barnes Summary

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... Read more

In the following review, Gosswiller asserts that the style of Barnes's The Porcupine is different from his earlier novels due to its subject matter. A truly powerful short novel is a rare event... Read more

In the following review, Marien discusses the virtues and faults of Barnes's The Porcupine. “Do you think a whole country can get therapy?” That question is at the core of British... Read more

In the following review, Furbank calls Cross Channel “perhaps Barnes's most assured work so far.” It was Wittgenstein's objection to Freud and his Interpretation of Dreams ... Read more

In the following essay, Birkerts provides an overview of Barnes's career and major works. Julian Barnes once remarked—or, better, proclaimed—that “in order to write, you ha... Read more

In the following essay, Higdon analyzes some of the contributions to fictional structure made by Julian Barnes and Graham Swift. Who will be for the British novel of the 1980s what John Fowles and Mar... Read more

In the following review, Wheeler lauds Barnes's Talking It Over. Julian Barnes is an extraordinary writer. In this novel [Talking It Over,] he takes an old love story, the triangle that leads f... Read more

In the following review, Duplain lauds Barnes's The Porcupine as “a satisfyingly balanced book.” When the party has fallen, the economy is in ruins, the atmosphere choked with pol... Read more