Pulse

Pulse

Julian Barnes

"Of the different personae, the different levels of writerly self articulated here, it is in the Barnes who chronicles small-scale lives that the genuine artistic impulse resides; the Barnes of suburban love and unfashionable hobbies and metaphysical modesty. As for Barnes the personality, the friend and husband, the raconteur, he is in the end more evanescent. His exposure of these selves feels like the momentary exposure of his own roots, his workings, all somewhat raw. But his fiction is used to the light, and thrives in it."


Bron: Pulse by Julian Barnes - review . - The Guardian