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Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Justin: A Small Major Character.” In Madame Bovary: Taşra Töreleri by Gustave Flaubert. İletişim Yayınları, 2006. Pp. 426 + [2]. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by Elçin Gen. (Turkish).
Barnes’s essay appears on pages 413-426.
Note on this edition: Julian Barnes. Le perroquet de Flaubert Suivi de Changer d’avis | Flaubert’s Parrot and Changing My Mind. Stock, 2025. Pp. 342 + [10]. 21.3 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782234099159. (French).
Combined edition of Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot with his essays published as Changing My Mind, published in the la Cosmopolite line by Stock.
Includes a preface by Julian Barnes on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Flaubert’s Parrot, pp. 9-[18].
Notes on this edition: El lloro de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2025. Pp. 281 + [6]. 23 x 15.1 cm. Translated by . ISBN: 9788429782424. (Catalan).
Introduction by Julian Barnes, pp. 7-16. The first Catalan edition was published in 1995.
Notes on this edition: Redstone Diary 2024. Redstone, 2023. 24.5 x 16.8 cm. Spiral bound with unnumbered pagination. Selected texts and introduction by Julian Barnes.
Notes on this edition: Lorrie Moore. Ligesom Livet | Like Life. Tiderne Skifter, 2016. Pp. 269 + [3]. 23 x 15.8 cm. Translated by Claus Bech and Pia Juul. ISBN: . (Danish).
Foreword by Julian Barnes appears on Pp. 7-10. The piece was written specifically for this translated volume.
Notes on this edition: “Brian Moore. Schwarzrock by Brian Moore. Diogenes, 2020. Pp. 285 + [1]. 18.8 x. 12.2 cm. Translated by Otto Bayer. ISBN: 9783257071450. (German).
“Nachwort” by Julian Barnes appears on pp. 279 + [286].
Notes on this edition: Anita Brookner. Hotel du Lac. Uitgeverij Orlando, 2021. 215 + [1]. 20.7 x 13.1 cm. Translated by Eva Wolff. ISBN: 9789083104348. (Dutch).
Julian Barnes provides the “Nawoord” [“Epilogue”] on pp. 207-[216]. The piece was originally published in The Guardian on 18 March 2016, as “Julian Barnes Remembers His Friend Anita Brookner.”
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Courbet: non è così, è cosà.” Courbet e la Natura. Fondazione Ferrara Arte, 2018. Pp. 262 + [2]. 28 x 23 cm. (Italian).
Julian Barnes’s essay on Courbet appears on pp. 23-29. The essay first appeared in the Italian translation of Keeping an Eye Open (Einaudi).
Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Metroland. Atlas Contact, 2020. Pp. 232 [233] + [7]. 21 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Else Hoog. ISBN: 9789025461836. (Dutch).
Includes a foreword by Julian Barnes.
Notes on this edition: Georges Simenon. Maigret. London: The Folio Society, 2018.
Julian Barnes introduces this 3-volume Folio Society set. His introduction appears on pages vii-xv in the volume titled Maigret and the Calame Report. Pp. 160. 22.3 x 14.4 cm. Translated by Moura Budberg. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway.
The set includes three novels:
Maigret and the Calame Report
Maigret and the Wine Merchant
Maigret and the Saturday Caller