Julian Barnes (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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Julian Barnes has served as a journalist and columnist for several British newspapers and magazines. He has also published numerous essays and book reviews.
Achievements
Barnes is one of a number of British writers born after World War II who gravitated toward London and its literary scene. Reacting to the certainties and assumptions of the previous generation, they have often resorted to irony and comedy in viewing the contemporary world. Some have experimented with the form of the traditional novel. Barnes’s early novels were narrative...
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