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Entries focus on major authors and their recurring artistic concerns, including Julian Barnes’s narrative strategies and treatment of time, William Boyd’s pseudo-biographical and meta-fictional techniques, and Jez Butterworth’s distinctive elegiac pastoral drama. It also outlines connections between comedy and satire in recent fiction through writers such as Jonathan Coe and Howard Jacobson.","A-Z of Authors and Topics\nThis A-Z offers additional material, comment and update to the text of the third edition of The Routledge History of Literature in English\nB\nJulian Barnes\nBarnes returns to the theme of narrative and time in The Noise of Time (2016) about the composer Shostakovitch. “Shostakovich was a multiple narrator of his own life,” he points out in his author’s note to the novel, “with details varying across different versions. All this is highly frustrating to any biographer,” Barnes goes on to write, “but most welcome to any novelist.”.\nThis can not only give a clue to Barnes’s narrative strategies (as with William Boyd) in novels with real characters, such as Flaubert’s Parrot  and Arthur and George (2005) about Arthur Conan Doyle, but, in effect, as an imaginative approach it resonates through all his work. As his narrator says on the opening page of The Sense of an Ending, “what you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”\n“Art belongs to everybody and nobody,” he writes, seemingly from inside Shostakovich’s consciousness. “Art belongs to all time and no time… Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. But which people and who defines them?”\nWilliam Boyd\nWilliam Boyd’s penchant for the lengthy pseudo-biographical novel is seen again and again. In Any Human Heart (2002) he attempts to cover the history of the century, this time through the journals of an ambitious literary character, Logan Mountstuart, born in South America and brought up in England. Real figures such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway appear and give the story the same kind of spurious credibility that Boyd played with in the hoax biography of the artist “Nat Tate” that Boyd published (with the connivance of David Bowie) in 1998. Although he can become rambling and disconnected, it is in the nature of this kind of novel to take off in different directions: the narrator is almost by definition unreliable. Boyd has always been interested in attempting the overview, and in this novel he frequently reflects on what “the true journal” might be – echoing the kind of fictional dilemma that the very first novelists found themselves in three centuries ago: is the story true or is it a story? How are readers to take it? Like his earlier The New Confessions this is fiction as life and/or life as fiction.\nBoyd is one of the most prolific of current novelists and has maintained very high standards of readability and success with Restless (2006) Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009), Waiting for Sunrise (2012), and Sweet Caress (2015), all of which have a broad-ranging canvas, combine past and present, mix genres (biography, espionage) and maintain that sense of playful meta-fiction found in his earlier works. His short story ‘Long Story Short’ is a classic of our time.\nJez Butterworth\nJez Butterworth’s emblematic ‘state of the nation’ play Jerusalem (2007) became something of a cult success, with its hero Rooster Byron a virtuoso role for an actor. It is about the clash between a simpler rural set of values and modernity and has been very much considered a state of the nation allegory: the title echoes William Blake’s hymn ’Jerusalem’. In 2012 Butterworth followed this with a different kind of pastoral, The River, half the length and with only four characters. This is a simple, poetic play – Wordsworth and Ted Hughes brought together in a poetic evocation of man in nature and the nature of man. These two plays were a complete contrast to his first major success Mojo (1995), about London low-life in the 1950s, which became a movie and was revived with great success in 2013.Butterworth’s main contribution to the modern stage is that he has struck a vein of elegiac pastoral drama which is quite unique, and these two pastoral plays at least bid fair to be regarded as classics.\nC\nComedy, Satire and Recent Fiction (Jonathan Coe, Howard Jaco","cbCaie5RJezQzI7v","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie5RJezQzI7v","docx",40257,17,"English","en",105,"# A-Z of Authors and Topics\n## Julian Barnes\n## William Boyd\n## Jez Butterworth\n## Comedy, Satire and Recent Fiction\n## Fiction and Everyday Life","[{\"question\":\"What source does this A-Z material update or extend?\",\"answer\":\"It provides additional material, comment, and updates to the text of the third edition of The Routledge History of Literature in English.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major themes are highlighted for Julian Barnes?\",\"answer\":\"His work emphasizes narrative strategies and time, including ideas about multiple narrators and the frustration this causes for biographers but invites novelists.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document describe comedy and satire in recent fiction?\",\"answer\":\"It frames comedy and satire as reflections of contemporary cultural mood, highlighting Jonathan Coe’s skewering of politics and family life and Howard Jacobson’s comic Booker-winning career.\"}]","A-Z of Authors and Topics - 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