Elizabeth Finch Julian Barnes

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Nemira Publishing House
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786064314703

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Elizabeth Finch - Julian Barnes by Julian Barnes Pdf

Acest roman fascinant gravitează în jurul stoicei și exigentei Elizabeth Finch, lector universitar, un personaj cu adevărat memorabil. Neil, naratorul, se înscrie la cursul ei de cultură și civilizație pentru adulți de toate vârstele și este captivat de personalitatea acesteia. Un roman provocator și experimental, care se concentrează pe necesitatea de a reexamina și de a reevalua constant ceea ce credem că știm despre istorie, dar și despre dragoste sau prietenie. Cursul ei schimbă felul în care vedem lumea. În Elizabeth Finch, vom regăsi tot ceea ce prețuim la Barnes: atenția sa pentru formele neortodoxe ale iubirii dintre doi oameni, un viraj convingător către non-ficțiune, impactul istoriei și, în special, al biografiei, ca hrană și ghid în viețile noastre actuale. „O explorare lirică, atentă și captivantă a iubirii, a durerii și a miturilor colective ale istoriei.“ Booklist Elizabeth Finch e compusă din „două treimi ficțiune și o treime non-ficțiune. Partea literară are drept protagonistă o femeie care nu e doar inteligentă, ci de-a dreptul înțeleaptă, un lector universitar care predă cursuri adulților și care are un impact deosebit asupra vieții naratorului, dar și asupra modului său de a gândi. Partea de non-ficțiune se concentrează asupra lui Iulian Apostatul, cel din urmă împărat roman păgân, după uciderea căruia creștinismul a rămas triumfător vreme de vreo cincisprezece secole. [...] Elizabeth Finch este o femeie care nu aparține vremurilor sale, un personaj în afara timpului, care scrutează cu atenție realitatea, care vede lucrurile mai clar decât studenții săi.“ Julian Barnes

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039004894

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Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the Booker Award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography. "I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." —John Self, The Times (UK) This novel of unrequited platonic love takes aim at the singular character of the exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, adrift in his 30s, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deeply fascinated by this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his children drift from his grasp, Neil hangs tight to Finch and her unorthodox application of history and philosophy to the practical matters of daily living. As much as he wants to figure her out intellectually, he want to please her. Both are impossible. In Neil's story, readers are treated to everything they cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unconventional forms love can take, a compelling swerve into nonfiction (this time through Neil's obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following the trail of crumbs Elizabeth Finch has left for him), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history and biography as both nourishment and guide in our daily lives. Finch is a character who challenges the reader as much as her students to think for themselves, and leaves us searching for a way to deal with one of her simplest of ideas: "Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us."

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039004900

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Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the Booker Award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, sparking a man's deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography. "I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." —John Self, The Times (UK) This novel of unrequited platonic love takes aim at the singular character of the exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, adrift in his 30s, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deeply fascinated by this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his children drift from his grasp, Neil hangs tight to Finch and her unorthodox application of history and philosophy to the practical matters of daily living. As much as he wants to figure her out intellectually, he want to please her. Both are impossible. In Neil's story, readers are treated to everything they cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unconventional forms love can take, a compelling swerve into nonfiction (this time through Neil's obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following the trail of crumbs Elizabeth Finch has left for him), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history and biography as both nourishment and guide in our daily lives. Finch is a character who challenges the reader as much as her students to think for themselves, and leaves us searching for a way to deal with one of her simplest of ideas: "Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us."

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385350785

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Levels of Life by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir—a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review). In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735274747

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The Only Story by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. It is the early 1960s, in a staid suburb fifteen miles south of London. Paul, home from university for the holidays, is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. At the mixed doubles tournament he is partnered with Mrs. Susan Macleod: she's more than twice his age, and the married mother of two nearly grown-up daughters. Soon Paul and Susan embark on an unconventional affair, despite the disapproval of Paul's parents and the seething resentment of Susan's husband. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. But as he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Wryly observant and devastatingly tender, The Only Story is a profound, contemplative novel by one of fiction's greatest mappers of the human heart.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797889

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Talking It Over by Julian Barnes Pdf

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “fiction at its best” (The New York Times Book Review) in an unforgettable novel about two best friends and the beautiful woman who comes between them. First there’s Stuart, stolid, conventional, but not quite so dull as he pretends to be. Then there is Oliver, his glamorous, epigrammatic best friend. And veering wildly between them is Gillian, the cryptic beauty who marries Stuart and then astonishes everyone by falling in love with Oliver. These three are at once the protagonists and the hilariously unreliable “eye-witnesses” of this funny, elegant, and affecting novel by bestselling author Julian Barnes, which reimagines the romantic triangle as a weapon whose edges cut like razor blades.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797780

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Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes Pdf

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “a remarkably original and subtle book” (The New York Review of Books) about the nature of love and jealousy. At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307368447

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Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes Pdf

"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God and a homage to the writer Jules Renard. Barnes also draws poignant portraits of the last days of his parents, recalled with great detail, affection and exasperation. Other examples he takes up include writers, "most of them dead and quite a few of them French," as well as some composers, for good measure. The grace with which Barnes weaves together all of these threads makes the experience of reading the book nothing less than exhilarating. Although he cautions us that "this is not my autobiography," the book nonetheless reveals much about Barnes the man and the novelist: how he thinks and how he writes and how he lives. At once deadly serious and dazzlingly playful, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a wise, funny and constantly surprising tour of the human condition.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2715258836

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Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes Pdf

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371416

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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes Pdf

Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Arthur is saddled with a dad who is a disgrace and a mum he wishes to protect, and is propelled into a life of action. To his astonishment, his career as a self-made man of letters brings him riches and fame and, in the world at large, he becomes the perfect picture of the honourable English gentlemen. George is irredeemably an outsider, and has no hope of becoming such a picture. Though he’s dogged and logical, a vicar’s son from rural Staffordshire, he is set apart, and he and his family are targeted in his boyhood by a poison-pen campaign. George finds safe harbour in the reliability of rules, and grows up to become a solicitor, putting his faith in the insulating value of British justice. Then crisis upsets the uneasy equilibrium of both men’s lives. Arthur is knocked for a loop by guilt and other dishonourable emotions. George is put to the sorest test, accused of a horrible crime. And from that point on their lives weave together in the most profound and surprising way, as each man becomes the other’s salvation. Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it’s a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove. George and his father pray together, kneeling side by side on the scrubbed boards. Then George climbs into bed while his father locks the door and turns out the light. As he falls asleep, George sometimes thinks of the floor, and how his soul must be scrubbed just as the boards are scrubbed. Father is not an easy sleeper, and has a tendency to groan and wheeze. Sometimes, in the early morning, when dawn is beginning to show at the edges of the curtains, Father will catechize him. "George, where do you live?" "The Vicarage, Great Wyrley." "And where is that?" "Staffordshire, Father." "And where is that?" "The centre of England." "And what is England, George?" "England is the beating heart of the Empire, Father." "Good. And what is the blood that flows through the arteries and veins of the Empire to reach even its farthest shore?" "The Church of England." "Good, George." And after a while Father will begin to groan and wheeze again. George watches the outline of the curtain harden. He lies there thinking of arteries and veins making red lines on the map of the world, linking Britain to all the places coloured pink: Australia and India and Canada and islands dotted everywhere. He thinks of blood bubbling though these tubes and emerging in Sydney, Bombay, the St. Lawrence Waterway. Bloodlines, that is a word he has heard somewhere. With the pulse of blood in his ears, he begins to fall asleep again. —excerpt from Arthur & George

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307366405

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The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes Pdf

Master prose stylist Julian Barnes presents a collection of stories whose characters are growing old and facing the end of their lives—some with bitterness, some with resignation and others with raging defiance. “Life is just a premature reaction to death,” was what Viv’s husband used to say. Once her lover and friend, he is now Viv’s semi-helpless charge, who is daily sinking ever deeper into dementia. In “Appetite,” Viv has found a way to reach her husband: by reading aloud snippets of recipe books until he calls out indelible—and sometimes unfortunate—scenes locked away in his brain. In “The Things You Know,” two elderly friends enjoy their monthly breakfast meetings that neither would ever think of missing. Of course, all they really have in common is a fondness for flat suede shoes and a propensity for thinking spiteful, unspoken thoughts about one another’s dead husbands. “The Fruit Cage” is narrated by a middle-aged man whose seemingly orderly upbringing is harrowingly undone when he discovers that his parents’ old age is not necessarily a time of serenity but actually an age of aroused, perhaps violent, passions. In these stories, Julian Barnes displays the erudition, wit and uncanny insight into the human mind that mark him as one of today’s great writers, one whose intellect and humour never obscure a genuine affection for his characters.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307367594

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Letters From London by Julian Barnes Pdf

With the same brilliant style and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked all his novels—and with a bold grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes's ironic glance turns home. Letters from London takes in everything from Lloyd's of London's demise to Maggie's majesty to Salman Rushie's death sentence. Formidably articulate and outrageously funny, Letters from London is international voyeurism at its best—a peek into the British mindset from the vantage point of one of the most erudite and witty British minds.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797773

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Metroland by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (Vogue). Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797858

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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.