Through the Window
About This Novel
"Through the Window" contains seventeen literary reviews and one short story published by the writer Barnes in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. Critics include Penelope Fitzgerald, Orwell, Kipling, Ford, Merrimee, Houellebecq, Hemingway, Updike and others. As one of the most outstanding contemporary British novelists, Barnes is also an elegant and witty literary critic. In his writing, the image of the writer emerges vividly on the page: How did Orwell's boarding school experience affect his writing? Kipling traveled in France every year by car. What kind of affection did he have for France? Edith Wharton advanced an astronomical $8,000 royalties to Henry James anonymously; Lydia Davis was not very enthusiastic about "Madame Bovary," but her translation was the best... Through these windows of text, we see what is the best novel and the truth about life.
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