A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Barnes
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From the Flood to the 1980’s
- Setting: Various
- Principal Characters: The Woodworm, Franklin Hughes, Kath, Theodore Gericault, Amanda Fergusson, Charlie, Julian Barnes, Spike Tiggler
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Art or artists, Painting or painters, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Television or television broadcasting, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Time, Astronauts
- Locales: Earth
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes’s fifth novel (chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Books of 1989 and shortlisted for Great Britain’s Booker Prize), is a work much easier to describe than to summarize, which is to say that it resists being reduced to less than what it is: a deeply—and by turns also playfully—meditative text. It is multitoned, multistyled, multivoiced, and indeed, multigenred. Neither conventional novel (it is too diverse) nor unified novellike story collection on the order of James Joyce’s...
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