Barnes, Julian Patrick
Barnes, Julian Patrick ( 1946 – ),novelist, educated at the City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the OED supplement ( 1962 – 72 ) and as a reviewer for the New Statesman, the Sunday Times, and the Observer. His novels embrace an unusual blend of domestic realism and metaphysical speculation, sometimes combining them in one work. Metroland ( 1980 ) moves from a London schoolboy's suburbia to student Paris in 1968 , and back again to marriage and mortgage in 1977 . Before She Met Me ( 1982 ) deals with a recurrent theme of sexual jealousy, which resurfaces in Talking It over ( 1991 ), in which a rejected husband creates chaos by insisting on attending his ex-wife's second marriage to his ex-best friend. Flaubert's Parrot ( 1984 ), which won the Prix Médicis, is set in Flaubert 's Rouen and Croisset; it is a...
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