BIG DADDY BARNES: As literary prizes go, nothing beats the Pulitzer for securing a novel's place on the best-seller list: 9 of the last 10 fiction winners have spent time here. (The exception is Geraldine Brooks's ''March,'' which won in 2006 but never cracked the list.) What about the Man Booker Prize in Britain? It's almost as powerful. Seven of...
The narrator of Julian Barnes's acclaimed novel ''The Sense of an Ending'' is told by Veronica, a girlfriend from his university days, that he just doesn't get it. Then, after more clues have come his way, she tells him that he still doesn't get it. There are so many things he doesn't get that he even considers using the line as his epitaph: ''Tony...
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING By Julian Barnes 163 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $23.95 Many literary careers have been made, and doubtless more will be, by conveying the inwardness, awkwardness and social anxiety that constrict British mores like a very tightly wrapped cummerbund. This suffocating self-consciousness lies at the heart of British humor, whether in...
Julian Patrick Barnes (født 19. januar 1946) er en britisk forfatter, nomineret tre gange for Bookerprisen, vandt prisen i 2011 med bogen Når noget slutter.
Han har skrevet flere kriminalromaner under pseudonymet "Dan Kavanagh".
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