In this comic novel, Julian Barnes satirizes a publicity campaign to increase tourism in England by reinventing the nation as a commercial brand of entertainment. The novel begins and ends in England—that is to say, in “Old England,” the island… Read More ›
Cross Channel was Julian Barnes’s first book of short fiction. It collects 10 stories about the English experience of France over 350 years, from the 17th to the early 21st century. Five of these tales were first published in the… Read More ›
After a few minutes of reading stories that are not selfreflexive, readers sometimes forget what they are doing and feel transported into the world of the book. Considering this experience naïve, authors of self-reflexive fictions thwart it by such devices… Read More ›
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