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Paperback – 6 Aug. 2009. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on ...
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- Julian Barnes
用10½章写成一部世界史，只有巴恩斯可以做到 当以历史的名义来建构小说时，巴恩斯已经暗示，他只是和历史开了一个玩笑。 在他的版本中，方舟在人类历史的不同时期一再出现，但原本衔接着方舟与救赎意义的铁链却在不同的叙述者口中滑脱，历史学家精心编织的人类历史自此开始驶入未知之地。
1 de mai. de 2010 · The Authority of the Author, the Reader and the Text in Julian Barnes`A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, E.P. Thompson` Witness against the Beast and Roland Barthes` The Death of the Author Julian Barnes seems to be ambitious in trying to conclude...
14 de abr. de 2020 · A History of the World in 10½ Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's eye view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. Full of pastiche and learned disquisition, heart-stopping documentary, and heart-lifting revelation, these stories are in fact all linked by ...
- Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. £11.95. (592) In stock. A stowaway aboard Noah’s Ark gives us his account of the Voyage – a surprising, subversive one, quite unlike the official version – which explains a lot about how the human race has subsequently developed. A guest lecturer on a cruise ship in the Aegean has his work ...
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- Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize - Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Plot Summary. A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989), a collection of short historical stories by Julian Patrick Barnes, tells Earth’s story from biblical times to the 1980s. Critics praise it for its unusual and playful take on world history, making obscure historical events more accessible to general readers.
