Elizabeth Finch

The latest novel by a modern English classic, «the most elegant stylist and the most unpredictable master of all conceivable literary forms» (The Scotsman). «„Elizabeth Finch“ — is much more than just a novel, — writes the Catholic Herald. — It is also a philosophical treatise on everything in the world». So, meet Elizabeth Finch. Listen to her course «Culture and Civilization». It will change your view of the world. For her evening students, she serves as a source of inspiration, a disruptor of tranquility, «the advisory lightning bolt». And so, decades later, Neil (a former actor, failed restaurateur, «the King of Abandoned Projects») sifts through her notebooks, trying to find the key to the elusive image of the enigmatic person named Elizabeth Finch — a charismatic, eccentric thinker, an apologist for methodicality, who knows exactly when «history went off course»: when Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor of ancient Rome, was defeated… «Barnes's new novel is a puzzle novel: an intellectual, philosophical detective. And also — rather, first and foremost — it is an exploration of love in all its forms, not just romantic» (The Sydney Morning Herald).