Biography
Julian Barnes - a modern British Prose, Icon of postmodernism and a fleet character of the book "Diary Bridget Jones". The writer is a fundamental bourgeois, which opposing the romance of Bunt family happiness, and an intricate metaphor - a simple literary language.Childhood and youth
The writer was born the first post-war in winter in the family of French teachers. After a month and a half after the appearance of Julian Barnes moved from the London suburb of London. When the boy was 10 years old, the mother told him that he had too much fantasy. Being a teenager, Barnes sympathized with Ilya Oblomov, because, like Ivan Goncharov's character, did not like to get up from the sofa in the morning.
In Oxford, Giulian studied French and Russian languages and went to the comrades in the USSR at the rented minibus. Boys drove through France, two Germany and Poland to Brest. Then the path of tourists spent the night in the tents, passed through Minsk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov, Kiev and Odessa. Travelers returned through Romania. Barnes led a travel diary, which includes not only photos and notes, but also Soviet artifacts, for example, wrapper from the chocolate "Alenka".
Then there were a trip to France, during which Julian was in the Paris Moro Gustas Museum and forever love painting, and work in the media. Barnes remembers that in his youth suffered from "exhausting shy".
Books
The first large work of Barnes - the novel "Metrolend" - tells about young people who have turned from the rebounds in Yupp. Contrary to literary traditions, the writer does not condemn such metamorphosis of heroes. In 1997, the work was fused.
Born in one day with the classics of detective Edgar Allahn by and Patricia Heismit Barnes could not not give tribute to this genre. Most of the investigative Romans Julian published under the pseudonym Dan Kavan, borrowing the name of his wife for him.
And the work of "Duffy Vlip" is written in 2 weeks (whereas the author spent 8 years to create a serious Metrolenda). However, the book "Arthur and George", telling about the investigation carried out by the literary father of Sherlock Holmes, Lescript published under his name.
Another writer, who became a character of the works of Barnes, is the author of Madame Bovari Gustave Flaubert. The hero of the novel "Parrot Flaubert" Jeffrey learns that the two museums put the scarecrow the birds, allegedly standing on the table of the French writer while writing a "simple soul". The work made Barnes famous, and the photo of the postmodernist with the parrot on the shoulder began to prevent an interview with him.
A number of works of Julian rose from his work by the reporter. Thus, the "pedant in the kitchen" was written by the gastronomic column, which the writer was led in the newspaper, and at the heart of the book "Open Eyes" - reports of Barnes journalist on painting exhibitions.
Personal life
At 32, the writer got acquainted with the love of his life - the literary agent Pat Kawanna, who died in 2008, when Barnes was 62. Nothing is the difference in age (Pat was older her husband for 6 years), nor the treason of spouse (Kavana went from Barnes To the prose woman Janet Winson), nor even the concent of his wife - could not destroy the love of Julian.
The death of the wife brought Julian to thoughts about suicide, but the writer realized that his suicide would relish his beloved, because his wife was alive until he remembers her. The writer has no children, to some extent, he replaced the daughters and grandchildren of the older brother Jonathan, an antique philosophy specialist.
Barnes - Agnostic and in the work of the "history of the world in 10½ chapters" retold the plot of the World Flood on the face of the Wood Parasite, accidentally fleed on the ship Noah. In the same book, Julian was invented that the Lester City football team for which the prose was sick, won the tournament, and after 26 years the fantasy became a reality.
The writer loves Russian literature - Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev. Favorite Roman Barnes - "Hero of Our Time" Mikhail Lermontov.
Julian Barnes now
In 2016, Julian visited Russia for the second time. Prosisaic was an honorary guest at the Moscow Fair of Not Surface Literature, where he represented the book "Noise of Time" - three stylized dialogue Dmitry Shostakovich with a demonized Soviet government.
In an interview with the Russian newspaper, Pavel Basinsky writer admitted that he loves the music of the author of the "Leningrad Symphony" since he heard her at 15 years old, and during the youthful trip to the Soviet Union, he bought plates in the GUM with the works of the composer.
In 2018, 2 Barnes books were published in Russian - Collection of Essay "Open Eyes" (review of creativity 17 artists across the prism of their biographies), published in the UK in 2015, and "One History" (Roman about the love of the 19-year-old young fest and 48-year-old Susan).
In March 2019, it became known that the founders of the "Clear Polyana" premium included a "one story" in a long list of nominees in the category "Foreign Literature". The winner of the award becomes famous in October. In 2018, the Israeli Prosecascript of Amos Oz became the laureate of "Clear Polyana", which died shortly after the results announced.
Quotes
- "Sorrow lies in the vertical plane and performs rotational movements, while mourning horizontal." ("Life levels")
- "The difference between youth and old age is, among other things, in the fact that young people come up with the future for themselves, and the old people are past." ("Premonition of the end")
- "When it is offended by my country, a dormant awakens, if not to say tempful, patriotism." ("There is nothing to fear")
- "Books give the meaning of life. But the problem is that the life they attaches meaning is the life of other people, and never yours. " ("Flaubert Parrot)
Bibliography
- 1980 - "Metrolend"
- 1980 - "Duffy Vlip"
- 1982 - "Before she met me"
- 1984 - "Parrot Flaubert"
- 1989 - "World History in 10½ chapters"
- 1991 - "How it was"
- 1992 - "Wildness"
- 1996 - "On the side of La Mansha"
- 1998 - "England, England"
- 2000 - "Love and so on"
- 2003 - "Pedant in the kitchen"
- 2004 - "Lemon Table"
- 2005 - "Arthur and George"
- 2008 - "There is nothing to fear"
- 2011 - "Premonition of the End"
- 2013 - "Life levels"
- 2015 - "Open Eyes"
- 2016 - "Noise of Time"
- 2018 - "One History"