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Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Category: Fiction | Published: 1989 | Review Added: Unknown
The facetious title sums up this novel: wry but ambitious. It's basically ten short stories/essays illuminating the human condition - the striving for meaning in a meaningless world. There's a half-chapter thrown in, in which Barnes goes on at length about how much he loves his wife. Lucky old him, eh.
I read this when I was 19, and enjoyed it then, but I don't know what I'd make of it now. Perhaps not as moving as it ought to be, nevertheless it's full of stimulating ideas.