Julian Barnes’s Arthur & George

Posted on May 10, 2009 by pernodel

Barnes, Julian.  Arthur & George.  New York: Knopf, 2006.
Since I mentioned this novel while discussing Barnes’s Talking It Over, it seems useful to say a bit more about it here.  Arthur and George tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle, mostly famous as the inventor of the arch crime solver Sherlock Holmes, helps George [...]

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Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over

Posted on May 8, 2009 by pernodel

Barnes, Julian.  Talking It Over.  New York and Toronto: Knopf, 1991
A book by Barnes much earlier than Arthur and George (2006), this one reveals then a longstanding interest in narrative alternations.  Talking It Over is about a love triangle–about two men of apparently opposite character who’ve been friends since school, and the woman one of [...]

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