n 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787332164
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 280
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 45m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/11/2019
Año de edición: 2019
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) es va formar entre Londres i Oxford, i abans de convertir-se en escriptor va treballar com a lexicògraf, editor i crític de cinema. Se’l considera un dels grans autors de la narrativa anglesa de les darreres dècades. Entre les seves obres cal destacar El lloro de Flaubert (Premi Geoffrey Faber Memorial i, a França, Premi Médicis), Una història del mon en deu capítols i mig, Anglaterra, Anglaterra, Arthur & George i El sentit d’un final (Premi Booker). Ha estat finalista en tres ocasions del prestigiós Man Booker Price i ha rebut també, entre altres guardons, el Premi E. M. Forster de l’American Academy of Arts and Letters, el William Shakespeare de la Fundació FvS d’Hamburg i el Man Booker, i és Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.