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Julian Barnes is one of the most artistically ruminative writers of his generation. Having studied (or, as they say, read,) Modern Languages at Oxford, he is more at home with European literature than more insular English writers. The late Philip Larkin was an admirer of Barnes, and his poem "Aubade," an anguished and poignant meditation on death, may have inspired the younger writer.
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