The Washington Post, May 19th, 1996
CLEVER MAN, Julian Barnes -- a writer who can focus on the small even as he makes you think about the large. He strings words carefully, picking his way to perfection as only finicky linguists can. And yet before you know it, you have followed him into the mess of things -- love, death, fidelity, survival -- seeing it all with a cool, Olympian eye. There is, of course, a reason for this. Barnes is both philologist and philosopher, a wordman in search of the great perhaps. Writing as Dan Kavanagh and himself -- from Fiddle City to Flaubert's Parrot -- he is also (along with Martin Amis, Ian McE...
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