Moseley Merritt. A History of the Booker Prize. Contemporary Fiction Since 1992
In 1987, Julian Barnes devoted an essay to the Booker Prize in the London Review of Books in which he recalled what one of the judges told him after the award ceremony three years before when he had been short-listed for his novel Flaubert’s Parrot: ‘I hadn’t even heard of this fellow Flaubert befo...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2022
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| Summary: | In 1987, Julian Barnes devoted an essay to the Booker Prize in the London Review of Books in which he recalled what one of the judges told him after the award ceremony three years before when he had been short-listed for his novel Flaubert’s Parrot: ‘I hadn’t even heard of this fellow Flaubert before I read your book. But afterwards I sent out for all his novels in paperback.’ This is the kind of memorable anecdote that flourishes every year around the Booker and many of them are to be found... |
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