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Bezig met laden... Brieven uit Londen (1995)door Julian Barnes
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Britain in the first half of the nineties: Barnes takes us from Thatcher to Blair in essays written for the New Yorker. Whilst political journalism obviously isn't quite his métier, he shows us - as he always does - what an elegant, witty writer can do with material that has been done to destruction already by others. Just occasionally we get a touch of his schoolboyish side, where he can't resist pointing out gleefully how clever he's been: the notoriously comic index, of course, but also the way he highlights things like his alertness in spotting the Pugin hinges in the Shadow Cabinet room, for instance, but fails to give us any information about what he actually asked Tony Blair in their interview there. ( )
Letters from London reproduces Barnes’s reports as London correspondent to the New Yorker, political and partial. He is a supremely witty writer in several genres, and has employed particular techniques here to produce an index of high comedy. It is fascinating to see how cleverly – and selectively – Barnes has contrived his index entries from passages of text. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Gallimard, Folio (3027)
With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)942.12082History and Geography Europe England and Wales London City of London Historical periods of City of LondonLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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