Conversations with Julian Barnes (Literary Conversations Series)

About this book

Conversations with Julian Barnes collects eighteen interviews conducted over nearly three decades by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with the author (b. 1946) of such highly praised novels as Flauberts Parrot and Arthur & George. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Julian Barness varied works and provide readers the most vivid portrait yet of contexts and influences behind his ten novels his short stories and his essays. The interviews focus not only on the authors fiction but also on his essays translations and pseudonymous writings. Barness evolving understanding of the themes developed in his works (history truth love art and death) his views on the art of the writing process and the role of authors in contemporary society are also discussed at length.