Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes ( born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, as a pseudonym Dan Kavanagh occasionally ) is an English writer.

Life and work

Barnes worked for a language study and a subsequent study of law as a lexicographer and journalist. Since about 1980 he has worked as a writer.

Under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh Julian Barnes wrote four detective novels in the 1980s. Around the same time as the first, he published the book Metroland, a novella about a young urbanites and his travel experiences in Paris and London. It was followed by numerous other novels, short stories and essays. In addition to his literary career, he made a name for himself as a translator of French literature, as of Alphonse Daudet and Gustave Flaubert. The German editions of his works appear in Kiepenheuer & Petrovich 1999; until then, his books have been published in Haffmans. Barnes is considered a representative of postmodernism.

1979 Barnes married his then- agent Patricia Olive Kavanagh, to which he devoted most of his works and their last name he chose as a pseudonym. She died on 20 October 2008 to the consequences of a brain tumor.

Julian Barnes lives in London. He is the younger brother of the philosopher and historian of philosophy Jonathan Barnes. He describes himself as a happy atheist.

Narrative style

Cherished will be especially often ironic narrative tone. Talking about it in his novels and love and so he describes a relationship story by each of the characters tells the story from their point of view, a narrative form that could, among other things William Faulkner's novel in As I Lay Dying and Yasushi Inoue's novel is the hunting rifle.

In an interview with Der Spiegel to love, etc. Barnes says: " This trick to let the people speak individually to the reader, as the author gives me a lot of freedom. It is an intimate story, it 's about love. So I was wondering, what would be the most intimate way of expressing the story? The form should reflect the fact that every person who is involved in a relationship, a unique view of this relationship has ... "

Honors

Above all, his novel work was awarded with important literary prizes. In 1985 he was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the following year in France the Prix Médicis for Flaubert's Parrot and in 1992 the Prix Femina Etranger talk for In. He was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS Hamburg 1993 excellent. In 2004 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. The Sense of an Ending, published in 2011, was honored in the same year the prestigious Booker Prize. Flaubert's Parrot ( 1984), England, England (1998) and Arthur & George (2005 ) had previously been on the shortlist for the prize. In 2013 he was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works

As Julian Barnes

  • When she did not know me. A novel jealousy, dt of Michael Walter. Haffmans, Zurich 1988. ISBN 3-251-00125-6
  • Other formats: Before my time. A novel jealousy same translation; Haffmans, Zurich 1993. ISBN 3-251-30016-4
  • Flaubert's Parrot, German by Michael Walter, Haffmans, Zurich 1987. ISBN 3-251-00104-3
  • Look at the sun, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Haffmans, Zurich 1991. ISBN 3-251-00191-4
  • A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Haffmans, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-499-22134-9
  • Talking about it, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Haffmans, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-251-00204- X
  • The porcupine, German Stefan Howald and Ingrid Heinrich Jost; Haffmans, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-251-00215-5
  • Letters from London. 1990-1995, dt of Gertraude Krueger and Robin Cackett; Haffmans, Zurich 1995. ISBN 3-251-00300-3
  • Dover - Calais, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Haffmans, Zurich 1996. ISBN 3-251-00328-3
  • England, England, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-462-02830-8
  • Love, etc., dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-462-03076-0
  • Finely chopped and diced. The pedant in the kitchen, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-462-03419-7
  • The Lemon Table, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-462-03616-5
  • Nothing you should fear, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-462-04186-6
  • From the end of a story, dt of Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-462-04433-1
  • Trespassing, dt of Thomas Bodmer and Gertraude Krueger; Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne, 2012. ISBN 978-3-462-04480-5

As Dan Kavanagh

  • Airport rats, German by Michael K. Georgi, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-548-10185-2
  • Recompilation: slide -City, dt by Michel Bodmer; Haffmans, Zurich 1993. ISBN 3-251-30001-6
  • Serious foul play, German by Verena Schröder, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-548-10483-5
  • Other formats: blocking, same translation; Haffmans, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-453-07299-5
  • Go to the dogs, German by Willi Winkler, Haffmans, Zurich 1989. ISBN 3-251-01036-0

Audiobooks

  • 2006: The Lemon Table, Random House Audio Cologne, 2 CDs 126 mins, read by Joachim Król, ISBN 978-3-86604-209-4
  • 2012: From the end of a story, Argon Verlag Berlin, 5 CDs 363 mins, read by Manfred Zapatka, ISBN 978-3-8398-1164-1

Films

Secondary literature

  • Peter Childs: Julian Barnes ( Contemporary British Novelists ). Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7190-8106-4
  • Sebastian Groes and Peter Childs (ed.): Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives ). Continuum, London and New York, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4411-3008-2
  • Vanessa Guignery: The Fiction of Julian Barnes: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [ et al ] 2006.
  • Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts ( ed.): Conversations with Julian Barnes. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS 2009. ISBN 978-1-60473-203-0
  • Christoph Henke: Vergangenheitsobsessionen: history and memory in narrative work by Julian Barnes. . Scientific Publishing ISBN 3-88476-480-2 Trier 2001 (some zugl.: Diss, Paderborn, 2000)
  • Frederick M. Holmes: Julian Barnes ( New British Fiction ). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [ua ], 2009. ISBN 978-1-4039-9693-0
  • Merritt Moseley: Understanding Julian Barnes. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 1997. ISBN 1-57003-140-1
  • Matthew Pateman: Julian Barnes. Northcote House, Horndon 2002. ISBN 0-7463-0978-3
  • Bruce Sesto: Language, History, and metanarrative in the Fiction of Julian Barnes Lang, New York 2001 ISBN 0-8204-4467-7 ( = Studies in Twentieth - Century British Literature 3).
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