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Julian Patrick Barnes je anglický spisovatel. Jeho dílo bývá řazeno k postmoderní literatuře.

Roku 2011 vyhrál prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu za román Vědomí konce . Na cenu byl předtím již třikrát nominován: za romány Flaubertův papoušek , England, England a Arthur & George . Velmi ceněným je rovněž ve Francii, kde vyhrál roku 1992 Prix Femina Étranger za titul Jak to vlastně bylo?, on sám se označuje za frankofila a má s francouzským kulturním okruhem četné vazby, knihy Cross Channel a Something to Declare jsou Francii přímo věnovány. Je též nositelem nejvyššího stupně francouzského Řádu umění a literatury.

V 80. letech 20. století psal i detektivní romány pod pseudonymem Dan Kavanagh. Některé sloupky pro The New Review podepisoval "putovním pseudonymem" Edward Pygge. Před rokem 1986 pracoval jako novinář v denících New Statesman a The Observer. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. leden 1946  •  Další jména J. Barnes
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Julian Barnes: 83 citátů7 lajků

Julian Barnes nejznámější citáty

„Co se týče rasismu, jde u mě přímo o fyzický odpor - jedná se o nejostudnější, nejzvířečtější součást lidského bytí -, zatímco moje reakce na kafkovskou byrokracii má blíž k vzteku a depresi - to je plod naší lidské moudrosti.“

Julian Barnes

Zdroj: Rozhovor s Julianem Barnesem na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texty/rozhovory/julian-barnes-a-c-doyle-si-ziskal-muj-obdiv_2339.html

„Dějiny jsou lži vítězů…… a také sebeklam poražených.“

Julian Barnes

„Je Polsko důležitější než Československo? A co ta Palestina? Palestina je země v poušti, do které chtějí odejít Židi. To ostatně potvrzuje to, co o nich říkal strýček Leslie: že stejně nemají rádi golf. Nikdo, kdo rád hraje golf, by neodešel žít do pouště. To by bylo, jako kdyby hrál neustále z bunkru.“

Julian Barnes

Pohlédnout do slunce
Zdroj: [Barnes, Julian, Pohlédnout do slunce, Ladislav Nagy, Mladá fronta, Praha, 2010, 256, 26]

„Biografie dělají lidské životy mnohem zajímavější, než ve skutečnosti jsou.“

Julian Barnes

Zdroj: [Musilová, Markéta, Barnes, Julian, iLiteratura.cz, iLiteratura.cz, 2007-10-18, 2011-02-15, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/21637/barnes-julian]

„Jenže vzpomínky, které nám nakonec zůstanou, se přece pokaždé neshodují s tím, co jsme viděli na vlastní oči.“

Julian Barnes kniha Vědomí konce

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes: Citáty anglicky

“I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Vědomí konce

Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…”

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Zdroj: Levels of Life

“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”

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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Vědomí konce

Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Vědomí konce

Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Vědomí konce

Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”

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Zdroj: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”

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Zdroj: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”

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Julian Barnes kniha Flaubert's Parrot

Zdroj: Flaubert's Parrot

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”

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Julian Barnes kniha England, England

Zdroj: England, England

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”

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Zdroj: The Sense of an Ending

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