Beers & Books XLV – Julian Barnes

The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes *19 January 1949

Through the Window*

Seventeen Essays about Literature
and one short story

* Always interesting to see how titles vary from country to country. Reading the German "Am Fenster" one could think the book's English title were "At the Window".
Which lets me come to think of John McGahern's "Pornographer" of which the first German edition was "Der Pornograph", but got changed in the second into "Der Liebhaber" (The Lover).
Why? The first edition did not sell. ...