Julian Barnes is a famous writer whose novels are still actively read today around the world. However, Barnes was not only a writer, but also actively created various critical articles and essays. Julian creates today, which suggests that the writer is really tightly connected with literary activity.
Writer Biography
Julian Barnes was born on January 19, 1946 in the English town of Leicester.
After graduating from school, the writer entered the college branch of Oxford University. At college, Julian Barnes studied Western European languages. Already in 1968, the writer receives a diploma with honors, which confirms the talent of the writer.
The first steps in the literature
The first stories that were written by Julian Barnes were small detectives. Then the writer was known in literary circles under the pseudonym Dan Cavan.
Many of the writer's works have long been published in various literary magazines. The first book of Julian Barnes was the detective "Metroland." It is important to say that the writer received the Somerset Maugham Award for this novel.
Literary activity
Another famous novel by Julian Barnes was the book "The history of the world in ten and a half chapters." The work was successful due to its originality. A philosophical work that can be attributed to the literary genre of dystopia. In the novel, Julian Barnes discusses the issues that will always concern humanity.
Among all the writer's work, one can find novels written about love. Such books were “Before she met me” and “How it was”, “Love and so on”. The novel "How Everything Was" was awarded the Femin Prize in 1992.
Julian Barnes also received a Medici Award for his book Flaubert's Parrot. In the novel, the writer conducts a small study of all the authors who are engaged in creating their own literature. The book is also very different from all the usual works that are written by contemporaries. Barnes sees authorship as the whole process and the efforts that writers make to write their work.
During his creative career, he was three times included in the short lists of those who became laureates of the Booker Prize. The writer became a laureate in 2011. In 2005, for the novel "Arthur and George" they wanted to give him a prize, but the award did not take place. This misunderstanding was corrected only in 2011. Then, for the novel “Foreboding of the End”, Julian Barnes was awarded the Booker Prize. In the same year, the writer received the David Cohen Award. In 2016, this novel was filmed. The film is widely known.
Two novels were filmed in the writer’s homeland. These works were Metroland and Love and so on. One of the books was filmed in France.
Foreboding of the End
The protagonist of the novel is a man who has retired. Older people often feel nostalgic for their past. The central character also experiences an extraordinary longing for his unforgettable youth and youth. Suddenly, the main character arrives a letter that simply turns his whole ordinary and habitual life. He begins to understand that in his past there was a page that he would very much like to cross out.
Surprisingly, the man understands that he even managed to some extent. He diligently tried to forget the work of the past years, for a while it turned out. However, the past inexorably mocks the old man, forcing him to plunge again into the mistakes of his past, his youth.
Creator Writer Today
Today, the writer is already 71 years old, and he continues to create, finding all the big ideas that can be put on paper. It is to be expected that soon all readers and fans of Burns' art will see new novels on the shelves and windows of bookstores.