Arthur & George

novel by Barnes

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The novel Arthur & George by Julian Barnes explores themes of memory and aging, focusing on why some individuals are remembered after death while others are not. One of the titular characters is inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, a Scottish writer, is celebrated for his detective fiction, though he also penned historical novels and works on spiritualism. Barnes, a contemporary British author, is known for his inventive novels that often delve into characters obsessed with the past.12

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Julian Barnes
Novels and short stories
…not in the historical novel Arthur & George (2005), in which one of the title characters is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 2011 Barnes published Pulse, a collection of short stories, as well as The Sense of an Ending, a Booker Prize-winning novel that uses an unreliable narrator…
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…not in the historical novel Arthur & George (2005), in which one of the title characters is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 2011 Barnes published Pulse, a collection of short stories, as well as The Sense of an Ending, a Booker Prize-winning novel that uses an unreliable narrator…
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