Conversations with Julian Barnes
Conversations with Julian Barnes
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 Flaubert’s Parrot and Arthur & George. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Julian Barnes’s 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 author’s fiction but also on his essays, translations, and pseudonymous writings. Barnes’s 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.
Vanessa Guignery is professor of contemporary British and postcolonial literature at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in France. She is author of Seeing and Being: Ben Okri’s "The Famished Road" and editor of "The Famished Road": Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands and of a special issue of Callaloo on Ben Okri. In 2022, she edited a special issue of the journal Études anglaises on contemporary Nigerian literature. Ryan Roberts is a librarian at Lincoln Land Community College and editorial assistant for Between the Lines. He is also official webmaster for Julian Barnes (www.julianbarnes .com), Ian McEwan (www.ianmcewan.com), and James Fenton (www.jamesfenton.com), among others. He is editor of Conversations with Ian McEwan, published by University Press of Mississippi.
