History of The World In 10-1/2 Chapters - Couverture souple

Barnes, Julian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394221796 ISBN 13 : 9780394221793

Editeur : Picador, 1990

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think about what we think we know" (Observer)

"You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it" (Literary Review)

"There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here than you will read in a month of Sundays... storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant" (Financial Times)

"This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of ebullient, whooping joy" (Guardian)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Julian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and the Observer. He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394221796
• ISBN 13: 9780394221793
• Reliure: Broché