Julian Barnes

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote “Metroland” for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and “Flaubert's Parrot”
which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the
Booker Prize.
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375 printed pages
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  • Irena Nadjhas quoted6 months ago
    HOW DO YOU turn catastrophe into art?
    Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We’ll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assassinated? You can have the book or the film or the filmed book or the booked film. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, this catastrophe; to understand it, we have to imagine it, so we need the imaginative arts. But we also need to justify it and forgive it, this catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that’s what catastrophe is for.
  • Irena Nadjhas quoted9 months ago
    And no doubt if they examine the frame they will discover woodworm living there
  • Irena Nadjhas quoted3 years ago
    Your species has always been hopeless about dates. I put it down to your quaint obsession with multiples of seven

    intro to the topic at hand; unreliability of history due to humanity's /bad memory/

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