Julian Barnes: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Julian Barnes: Biographical Information......Page 12
INTRODUCTION Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainty......Page 14
CHAPTER ONE The Flâneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes’s Metroland......Page 24
CHAPTER TWO Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot......Page 37
CHAPTER THREE ‘A preference for things Gallic’: Julian Barnes and the French Connection......Page 50
CHAPTER FOUR ‘An Ordinary Piece of Magic’: Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes......Page 64
CHAPTER FIVE Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over......Page 82
CHAPTER SIX The Story of Julian Barnes’sThe Porcupine: an Epistolary ½ Chapter......Page 94
CHAPTER SEVEN Julian Barnes’s England, England and Englishness......Page 105
CHAPTER EIGHT Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes......Page 116
CHAPTER NINE ‘All Letters Quoted Are Authentic’: The Past After Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George......Page 130
AFTERWORD Seeing and Knowing with the Eyes of Faith......Page 142
REFERENCES......Page 147
Index......Page 174