What We Write About When We Write About Grief, Part Two

Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
In last month’s post (“ What We Write About When We Write About Grief ”), I provided examples of authors depicting grief in three different genres: fiction, poetry, and memoir.
Most of the comments responding to the post focused on how credible or authentic (or not) the various excerpts were in describing what it felt like to grieve.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/12/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief-part-two/

#CRAFT #REALWORLD #Grief #griefreaction #JulianBarnes

“Ni la felicidad ni la desdicha son controlables. La alegría, el placer, el interés apasionado –al igual que sus negativos fotográficos, la tristeza, el dolor y el tedio– fluyen sobre nosotros como olas…”

#JulianBarnes en “Despedidas”.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2026/03/24/julian-barnes-y-despedidas-un-adentramiento-en-busca-de-sus-verdades/

“Ni la felicidad ni la desdicha son controlables. La alegría, el placer, el interés apasionado –al igual que sus negativos fotográficos, la tristeza, el dolor y el tedio– fluyen sobre nosotros como olas…”

#JulianBarnes

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2026/03/24/julian-barnes-y-despedidas-un-adentramiento-en-busca-de-sus-verdades/

“I’d rather spend time with the living.” #julianbarnes #nothingtobefrightenedof

Back in March BBC4 showed a couple of interviews with Julian Barnes, an author whose work I love and who I've been reading since my twenties. One was a repeat of an older programme and one a new interview, and they reminded me that I still have some of his books on the TBR. I was in the mood for some non-fiction, and so I decided I would take a look at his…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/id-rather-spend-time-with-the-living-julianbarnes-nothingtobefrightenedof/

Julian Barnes: Departure(s)

https://kultursalon.blog/2026/04/13/julian-barnes-departures/

#Abschied(e), #Autobiographie, #Departure(s), #EnglischeLiteratur, #Essay, #JonathanCape, #JulianBarnes, #Romanfragment