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ABOUT VANESSA GUIGNERY
Guignery is professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and author of Julian Barnes from the Margins Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

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EXCERPT: Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives

by VANESSA GUIGNERY The following is excerpted from the book, Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archive (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), by author Vanessa Guignery.  The archives for each of Barnes’s novels reveal a composition pattern that starts with various notes about what to include, followed by several drafts containing… read more 

ABOUT VANESSA GUIGNERY
Guignery is professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and author of Julian Barnes from the Margins Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

ABOUT JIM KUHN

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director for the Library Division and Hobby Foundation Librarian at the Ransom Center. He has master's degrees in philosophy and library science, is the co-author of Academic Freedom: A Guide to the Literature (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has written about special collections librarianship and digital humanities. Jim also volunteers with the campus Victims Advocate Network (VAN), and serves on the board of Texas After Violence Project, an Austin-based community archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understandings of the impacts of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities.