Julian Barnes
British novelist whose intellectual wit and formal inventiveness explore history, memory, and Franco-British cultural difference. The Sense of an Ending won the Man Booker Prize in 2011. His fiction ranges from metafictional experiments to conventional literary novels.
Works
- Flaubert's ParrotLiterary scholar chases obsession with a dead French author and stuffed parrot
- The Sense of an EndingElderly man reflects on memory, regret, and the unreliability of recollection
- A History of the World in 10½ ChaptersIrreverent history mixing fact and fiction across ten and a half philosophical chapters
- England, EnglandSatirical novel where a modern nation is cloned as a theme park of itself
- Nothing to Be Frightened OfMeditative essays on mortality, atheism, and what lies beyond death