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From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a...
| Автор | Julian Barnes, Barnes J |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2009 |
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it......
| Автор | Julian Barnes, Barnes J |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. She will change the way you see the world. 'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.' Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoughtful. With measured empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2022 |
Der neue Roman Julian Barnes' uber eine platonische Liebe und den Tod einer besonderen Frau, der zum Anlass fur die tiefere Auseinandersetzung eines Mannes mit Liebe, Freundschaft und Biografie wird. Neil, gescheiterter Schauspieler, Vater und Ehemann, besucht an der Abenduni eine Vorlesung zur Kultur und Zivilisation und ist fasziniert von der stoischen und anspruchsvollen Professorin Elizabeth Finch. Er hat zwar Affaren und Liebeleien, doch pragt das Ringen um ihre Anerkennung sein...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2022 |
Julian Barnes? kunstvoller Roman uber eine unkonventionelle erste Liebe, die zur lebenslangen Herausforderung wird.»Wurden Sie lieber mehr lieben und dafur mehr leiden, oder weniger lieben und weniger leiden? Das ist, glaube ich, am Ende die einzig wahre Frage.« Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange Konsequenzen, aber davon hat Paul im Alter von neunzehn keine Ahnung. Mit neunzehn ist er stolz, dass seine Liebe zur verheirateten, fast 30 Jahre alteren Susan den gesellschaftlichen Konventionen ins...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2019 |
»Der Zitronentisch« vereint elf hellsichtige, ironische Geschichten uber das Alterwerden: Da wird uber die verpasste Liebe eines skandinavischen Holzhandlers erzahlt, uber abnorme sexuelle Vorlieben eines in die Jahre gekommenen Herrn oder uber ein altes Ehepaar, das sich aus reiner Gewohnheit das Leben zur Holle macht. Melancholische, heitere und bissige Lebensgeschichten, die eines gemeinsam haben: Das Wissen, dass das Ende des Lebens naht, macht alle Leidenschaft und alles Begehren noch...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2019 |
Die wahre Geschichte des franzosischen Arztes Samuel Pozzi und ein einzigartiger Einblick in das Paris der Belle Epoque – eine Zeit des Wandels, der Wissenschaft und der Entdeckungen Dr. Samuel Pozzi (1846–1918) war Arzt, Pionier auf dem Gebiet der Gynakologie und Freigeist, ein intellektueller Wissenschaftler, der seiner Zeit weit voraus war: So fuhrte er Hygienevorschriften vor Operationen in Frankreich ein und ubersetzte Darwin ins Franzosische. Ebenso reiste Dr. Pozzi, um Erkenntnisse zu...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2021 |
From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2009 |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2014 |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2014 |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt...
| Автор | Джулиан Барнс, Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2017 |
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at 'Phil & Joanna's', the topics of conversation range...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2011 |
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey himself.
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2009 |
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2017 |
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Год | 2019 |
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by...
| Автор | Julian Barnes, Barnes J |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2006 |