The Lemon Table (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Julian Barnes
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Alienation, Food, Old age or elderly people, Aging
Julian Barnes continues to explore the lives of famous artists in The Lemon Table, a collection of stories, as he did in the experimental Flaubert's Parrot (1984). The title of the collection, his first since Cross Channel (1996), comes from the last story in the book, “The Silence,” written in diary format, ostensibly in the words of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius during the thirty years of artistic inactivity that extended into his eighties. Barnes has Sibelius wryly suggest that his long silence is appropriate, for while all other arts aspire to the condition...
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