Portrait of a Man in Red

Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of contemporary Britain, author of such international bestsellers as "One Story", "The Noise of Time", "The Sense of an Ending", "Arthur & George", "A History... of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", "Flaubert's Parrot", and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and genres. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, refined lyricism and sarcasm that almost borders on cynicism, aggressive starkness and cheerful mischief—Barnes masters all this and much more.
"What genre should 'Portrait of a Man in Red' belong to—historical, biographical, or philosophical?"—asked the Independent newspaper; and it answered itself: "To all three at once! Before us is the perfect guide to a remarkable era." So, let us introduce Samuel Pozzi—a fashionable Parisian doctor of the late 19th century, the father of modern gynecology and a legendary womanizer; in short, the very "man in red" depicted in the famous portrait by Sargent "Dr. Pozzi at Home". Through the lens of the doctor's journey, equipped with a letter of recommendation from Sargent to Henry James, Barnes examines Belle Époque in all its diversity, and the reader cannot help but draw unsettling parallels with today. Moreover, the doctor does not travel alone: he is accompanied by refined aristocrats Prince de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquieu—the prototypes of Baron de Charlus from Proust's epic "In Search of Lost Time".

Author: Джулиан Барнс

Printhouse: Inostranka

Series: Big Novel

Age restrictions: 18+

Year of publication: 2020

ISBN: 9785389174856

Number of pages: 352

Size: 220х140х26 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 632 g

ID: 472248

Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of contemporary Britain, author of such international bestsellers as "One Story", "The Noise of Time", "The Sense of an Ending", "Arthur & George", "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", "Flaubert's Parrot", and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and genres. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, refined lyricism and sarcasm that almost borders on cynicism, aggressive starkness and cheerful mischief—Barnes masters all this and much more.
"What genre should 'Portrait of a Man in Red' belong to—historical, biographical, or philosophical?"—asked the Independent newspaper; and it answered itself: "To all three at once! Before us is the perfect guide to a remarkable era." So, let us introduce Samuel Pozzi—a fashionable Parisian doctor of the late 19th century, the father of modern gynecology and a legendary womanizer; in short, the very "man in red" depicted in the famous portrait by Sargent "Dr. Pozzi at Home". Through the lens of the doctor's journey, equipped with a letter of recommendation from Sargent to Henry James, Barnes examines Belle Époque in all its diversity, and the reader cannot help but draw unsettling parallels with today. Moreover, the doctor does not travel alone: he is accompanied by refined aristocrats Prince de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquieu—the prototypes of Baron de Charlus from Proust's epic "In Search of Lost Time".

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