Julian Barnes: 64 books

"Das meine ich nicht. Ich meine, ich will nicht bloß eine Affäre mit dir haben. Affären – Affären sind – ich weiß auch nicht –, wie wenn man sich eine Ferienwohnung in Marbella zur Teilnutzung kauft oder so." Oliver und Stuart sind Freunde seit Schultagen. Als Stuart Gillian kennenlernt,...

In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers,...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers, a twist on the workshop story and defense of Papa Hemingway, with art, love, ambition mixed in.   “Homage to Hemingway” is modeled...

Diez años atrás, Barnes revolucionó la forma de narrar un triángulo amoroso con la publicación de la novela coral Hablando del asunto. Allí, sin otro recurso que el de la recitación de fidelidades e infidelidades, dos hombres y una mujer intentaban explicarnos y explicarse a ellos mismos ciertas...

Man Booker Prize 2011 für "Vom Ende einer Geschichte" Wie sicher ist Erinnerung, wie unveränderlich die eigene Vergangenheit? Tony Webster muss lernen, dass Geschehnisse, die lange zurückliegen und von denen er glaubte, sie nie mehr hinterfragen zu müssen, plötzlich in einem ganz neuen...

**One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times ** Most of us have only one story to tell . . . only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes...

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.

With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life.

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver...

At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.

In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review.

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out."

Na juventude, Tony, Alex e Colin eram os melhores amigos na escola. Com a chegada de Adrian Finn, um rapaz tímido, um pouco mais sério e extremamente inteligente, o trio inseparável se torna um quarteto, que jura manter para sempre o laço que os une. Com fome de livros e de sexo, os rapazes acreditavam...