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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10? Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon,...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2009 |
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 |
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 |
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all.
Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes.
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
When it comes to Death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all. Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes.
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2017 |
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 |
»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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very...
| Автор | Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза, Книги о войне |
The updated edition of Julian Barnes’ best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays ‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue......
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
| Жанр | Культура и искусство |
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 |
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 |
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 |