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Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

essays by Barnes

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discussed in biography

In Julian Barnes: Nonfiction works
…of his literary influences; and Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (2015). Barnes used the story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi to explore Belle Époque Paris in The Man in the Red Coat (2019).
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