A review by marc129
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story by Julian Barnes

3.0

Collection of essays on writers and literature, published in the period 1996-2011. Barnes is an attentive reader, that's not at all surprising. His analysis mainly is literary-technical, but some essays contain salient information that was not yet known to me. Such as the important role that Rudyard Kipling played in the British War Graves Commission after the First World War, a result of the death of his 18-year-old son in the trenches. And authors like Lornie Morre or Penelope Fitzgerald were completely unknown to me. A nice illustration of the great imaginative power and aesthetic delight of fiction.