Julian Barnes writes literary fiction and essays about memory, art, love and the unreliability of stories people tell about their own past. The Sense of an Ending follows Tony Webster as a document from decades earlier forces him to reconsider a friendship, a relationship and his role in events he had simplified in memory. Flaubert's Parrot mixes fiction, biography and literary criticism through a narrator obsessed with Gustave Flaubert, while Arthur & George reconstructs the meeting of Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji. Barnes's prose is controlled, ironic and intellectually playful, often questioning how facts become narrative. His work fits contemporary British literary fiction, metafiction and novels about memory, biography and interpretation. Read more Less
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