Bøger af Julian Barnes

Papegøjen i denne romans titel er en udstoppet fugl, som den store franske forfatter Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) havde stående foran sig på sit skrivebord, da han i 1870 erne skrev historien om en gammel tjenestepige. Denne fugl spiller en afgørende rolle for romanens hovedperson, en pensioneret læge, der vil vide alt om Flauberts liv.Julian Barnes følger sin excentriske hovedperson på hans jagt efter sandheden om den forgudede forfatter. Fra Flauberts seksuelle debut til alderdommens tab af hår og tænder. Fra 1850ernes Rouen og helt ind i soveværelset hos Flauberts veninde Louise. Bogen udkom på engelsk 1984, og den danske oversættelse kom 1987 på forlaget Tiderne Skifter.Den ihærdige amatørforsker citerer flittigt fra Flauberts bøger og breve. Moderne litteraters naragtige meninger om den berømte forfatter spiddes med satanisk ironi. Men Braithwaite har også selv en historie som han nødtvungent må afsløre. Om sit ægteskab. Om sin kone. Som han elskede men var ham utro og så tog sit eget liv. En sorg han ikke kan komme over og heller ikke finde ord for.  Julian Barnes (f. 1946) er en af Englands mest læste forfattere. Stort set hele hans forfatterskab bestående af romaner essays og noveller foreligger i dansk oversættelse. Efteråret 2011 fik Barnes årets Man Booker Prize for sin seneste roman Når noget slutter (2011).

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. It reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, the author considers what fiction is, and what it can do.

'The funniest piece of food writing - my own theoretical metier - that you will ever read'. Giles Coren, The Times

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations.

Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table', it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of the characters is facing death, but each in a very different way.

Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present.

A novel about the most dramatic political downfall of our time - that of Eastern Europe. The author won the Prix Medicis with "Flaubert's Parrot". He also wrote "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" and "Metroland".

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.

Birmingham solicitor George Edalji has been found guilty of maiming six horses and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Desperate to prove his innocence, he recruits the help of crime writer Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to help solve his case and win him a pardon.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women;

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in.

Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events.

Kærligheden osv. er en samtaleroman og en trekantshistorie som hovedsageligt fortælles af dens tre hovedpersoner: kvinden Gillian og hendes to mænd Oliver og Stuart. I løbet af romanen henvender de sig både direkte læserne og til romanens øvrige personer. De tre har en sprængfarlig fortid sammen hvisker deres hemmeligheder ud og gør hvad de kan for at overbevise læseren om deres version af sandheden - om hvad der egentlig skete dengang Stuart var gift med Gillian indtil Oliver hans bedste ven stak af med hende. Oliver og Gillian er stadig gift og bor i London med to børn men ægteskabet kører på pumperne - og nu vender Stuart tilbage fra Amerika efter ti år og et opløst forhold. Julian Barnes har på ny skrevet et pletskud af en roman. En sædeskildring en fin psykologisk fortælling en moralsk komedie om tre personers forhold til hinanden og til "sandheden". Der er meget der ikke siges - og det der bliver sagt befinder sig et sted mellem tilsløring og selvbedrag. Som læser er man tilsyneladende hele tiden et hestehoved foran de implicerede - man ved eller tror at vide hvad Stuart i virkeligheden er ude på hvad Gillian dybest set ønsker sig og hvad der for evigt vil være skjult i Olivers helt personlige fortolkning af virkeligheden... Er det hele inklusive de rigeligt mange bipersoner blot begavet underholdning om parforholdets håbløshed og komik? Jeg synes at Kærlighed osv. er bedre end som så selv om det første allerede er godt nok også uhyggeligere fordi Barnes borer dybt i menneskers selvbedrag og magtstræb i selv de mest private forhold og gør det på en tindrende intelligent måde (...) Lyt selv og ny den fremragende oversættelse« [indsæt linieskift]Weekend-avisen [indsæt linieskift][indsæt linieskift]En for så vidt ganske banal erotisk komedie et beskedent kammerspil der imidlertid ikke bare bæres oppe men når anselig flyvehøjde af Barnes uforlignelige sproglige mesterskab og evne til at præsentere psykologiske indsigter med antydningens kunst« [indsæt linieskift]Jyllands-Posten