Présentation de l'éditeur
No one has a better perspective to see things from both sides of the Channel than Julian Barnes. He is not only one of the premier writers in Britain but his prize-winning work has long been admired and recognised in France. In these exquisitely crafted and turned stories spanning several centuries, Julian Barnes takes as his universal theme the British in France, our fascination with the country, our various and mixed reasons for being there and our sometimes ambiguous reception.
Biographie de l'auteur
Julian Barnes has published over a dozen books, amongst them the novels
Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Talking It Over, The Porcupine, England, England and
Love, etc; short stories, including
Cross Channel and
The Lemon Table; and the collections of essays,
Letters from London and
Something to Declare. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for
Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for
Talking It Over ). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. He lives in London.