Julian Barnes

FREDERICK M. HOLMES is Professor of English at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. He has taught Julian Barnes's fiction at graduate level and is the author of The Historical Imagination: Postmodernism and the Treatment of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction.

• PART I: INTRODUCTIONTimelineIntroductionA Biographical ReadingPART II: MAJOR WORKS Metroland, and Arthur& GeorgeFlaubert's Parrot , A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and England, EnglandBefore She Met Me , Talking it Over and Love, etcStaring at the Sun and The PorcupinePART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTSCritical ReceptionNotesBibliography.