Julian Barnes from the Margins
Exploring the Writer's Archives
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 September 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350243187
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 381 g
- Language English 189
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Long description:
Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes - including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence - this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist.
In Julian Barnes from the Margins, Vanessa Guignery charts the genesis and publication history of all of Barnes's major novels, from his debut with Metroland, through Flaubert's Parrot and A History of the World in 10 ï¿1⁄2 Chapters to The Sense of an Ending.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One. Metroland: everything that got away
1. Faltering starts
2. 'Petty Gripes' and 'Oua, oua, oua'
3. The Death Chapter
4. Return to Metroland
Chapter Two. The case for / The case against
1. Reviewing and being reviewed
2. The case of Before She Met Me
a. Julian Barnes's reButs to Hermione Lee's Buts
b. Finding the right title
Chapter Three. A chronology (of sorts)
Chapter Four. Flaubert's Parrot from ignition to composition
1. Flaubert Stories
2. The fictional narrator
Chapter Five. The Barnes apocrypha
1. A Literary Guide to Oxford: the itinerary of a book that was never published
2. The unwritten books which tantalize
Chapter Six. Staring at the Sun: a novel of forking roots and paths
1. Multiple roots and titles
2. Early starts
Chapter Seven. Fragments of stories: A History of the World in 10ï¿1⁄2 Chapters
1. Planning, naming and arranging chapters
2. Not so simple stories
3. 'Parenthesis'
4. With a little help from my friends
Chapter Eight. The Porcupine in the making: writer and translator
1. An outsider's view
2. Is and is not
3. The ending of the novel
4. The libel risks
Chapter Nine. A dictionary of Julian Barnes
Chapter Ten. Arthur & George: beginnings and endings
1. First and final steps
2. The blind spots of research
3. The art of beginning
4. Finding a JB title
5. Working out tenses
Chapter Eleven. Nothing to Be Frightened Of as an echo chamber
1. The obsession with death: from the early notebooks to Nothing to Be
Frightened Of
2. This is not an autobiography
3. Fictionalising memory in The Only Story
Chapter Twelve. The Sense of an Ending: time in reverse
1. Prequels in real life
2. A sequel to Metroland?
3. Getting started: the title and the incipit
4. A denser text
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
