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Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always mattered to him...

El puercoespín (1992) es una novela que retrata la caída del comunismo en Europa tras los sucesos de 1989. Se desarolla en un país de Europa del Este que nunca se nombre (una «seudo-Bulgaria» según e

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He''s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He''s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer''s letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world''s most distinguished writers.

A retired English doctor, in solitary widowhood, makes a pilgrimage through the life and art of Gustave Flaubert, whose work he has always venerated. As he meditates on his passion, he reveals as much about himself as he uncovers about Flaubert.

Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with a sense of the past and a sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, and aesthetics and redcurrant jam. "Flaubert's Parrot" deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, "Flaubert's Parrot" is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.

" Arthur est en retard pour son rendez-vous avec George Edalji au Grand Hotel, Charing Cross ; des affaires à régler à sa banque l''ont retenu plus longtemps que prévu. Il entre d''un pas vif dans le

A family memoir, an exchange with the author''s brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the Fre

''I don''t believe in God, but I miss Him''. Julian Barnes'' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that ''this is not my autobiography'', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers. When Angela Carter reviewed Barnes'' first novel, ''Metroland'', she praised the mature way he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies category and classification - except as Barnesian.

Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love, leading, to Toni's disappointment, back to Metroland.

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from More... Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it...One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs. fiction, reality vs. art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration...

Condamné pour le meurtre d'un cheval, George Edalji, jeune avoué d'origine parisienne, est emprisonné puis relâché sans avoir été innocenté. Son teint mat et sa parfaite intégration sociale dérangent l'Angleterre bien-pensante de ce début de XXe siècle. Fragile, effacé maladroit et démuni, il va faire appel à Arthur Conan Doyle, alors un des hommes les plus célèbres d'Angleterre, le créateur de Sherlock Holmes... Extraordinaire tableau de la société victorienne, ce roman. inspiré d'un fait réel qui avait divisé l'Angleterre comme en France l'affaire Dreyfus, est aussi le plus passionnant et le plus haletant des thrillers.

Julian Barnes kunstvoller Roman uber eine unkonventionelle erste Liebe, die zur lebenslangen Herausforderung wird."Wurden Sie lieber mehr lieben und dafur mehr leiden, oder weniger lieben und weniger leiden? Das ist, glaube ich, am Ende die einzig wahre Frage."Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange Konsequenzen, aber davon hat Paul im Alter von neunzehn keine Ahnung. Mit neunzehn ist er stolz, dass seine Liebe zur verheirateten, fast 30 Jahre alteren Susan den gesellschaftlichen Konventionen ins Gesicht spuckt. Er ist ganz sicher, in Susan die Frau furs Leben gefunden zu haben, alles andere ist nebensachlich. Erst mit zunehmendem Alter wird Paul klar, dass die Anforderungen, die diese Liebe an ihn stellt, groer sind, als er es jemals fur moglich gehalten hatte."Die einzige Geschichte" ist ein tief bewegender Roman uber die Liebe. Nach "Der Larm der Zeit" und "Vom Ende einer Geschichte" beweist Bestseller-Autor und Man Booker Prize-Trager Julian Barnes aufs Neue, dass er ein Meister im Ausloten menschlicher Abgrunde ist.

Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericaults The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud.

A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and "Flaubert's Parrot" which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

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