Opis: The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days? shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent?s greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker ? a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.

The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque ? its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers ? and a life of a man ahead of his time. Witty, surprising and deeply researched, the new book from Julian Barnes illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive.

Szczegóły: The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes

Tytuł: The Man in the Red Coat
Autor: Julian Barnes
Wydawnictwo: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9781787332164
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2019
Ilość stron: 270
Format: 17.0x22.0cm
Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
Waga: 0.9 kg

Recenzje: The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes