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The Noise of Time
This is Sunday Times Number One bestseller. It is a Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year. "Barnes' Masterpiece." (Observer). In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes' first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. It is a story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.
A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten- they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger; a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
Levels of Life
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…
In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed.
This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow.
Through the Window
In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes in his preface, 'Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.' When his "Letters from London" came out in 1995, the "Financial Times" called him "our best essayist". This wise and deft collection confirms that judgment.
Pulse
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by n
ew beginnings and endings. In "East Wind" a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite his happiness, to investigate her past; in "The Limner" a deaf painter discovers his patron's likeness after spending ti
me among his staff. Anchored off the coast of Brazil, Garibaldi spies his future wife through a telescope, and in "Marriage Lines", a widower returns to a remote Scottish Island to relive a favourite holiday. These are also lives in flux - in the 'st
ages, transitions, arguments; incompatibilities which grow' - as in the title story, where a man reflects on the break-up of his marriage, brought into new perspective by the actions of his parents; two writers, a 'good team', return from an event re
hearsing familiar arguments; in "Gardener's World", a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at "Phil & Joanna's", where among the topics of conversation - the environme
nt, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti and the perils of smoking - we witness the guests' lives shift in sections over the course of a year. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the Engli
sh seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark, each imbued with the humour, poignancy and perception that marks all Julian Barnes' work. This is an imaginative and expertly-constructed new collection from a master of the form.
A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...
This is no ordinary history, but something stranger; a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
Nothing to be Frightened of
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book 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 French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers. When Angela Carter reviewed Barnes' first novel, "Metroland", she praised the mature way he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies category and classification - except as Barnesian.
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Ti dva si nemohou být vzdálenější. Arthur Conan Doyle právě slavnostně vzkřísil z mrtvých Sherlocka Holmese a převzal šlechtický titul, kdežto George Edalji je jako provinční advokát a životní zelenáč zahloubán do práva odtrženého od jeho vykonavatelů. Arthur pluje na obláčku slávy a dovede si ji užít, zatímco George by rád prošel životem bez povšimnutí druhých, pokud budou respektovat pár jeho neškodných zásad. Ale neklame nás pod vlivem životopisných klišé zrak? Nestojí před námi ve skutečnosti vdovec sužovaný tím `že miloval, jak nejlépe může muž milovat ženu, kterou nemiluje`? A na druhé straně mladík „poněkud nevhodné` pleti, jehož tunelové vidění nedovoluje pochopit, že se stal terčem rasové nenávisti, která mu klade za vinu neslýchané násilnosti páchané na zvířatech?
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Príbeh konzervatívneho historika Grahama Hendricka a jeho mladej manželky, ktorá pácha cudzoložstvo na filmovom plátne. Celuloidová ilúzia postupne ovládne jeho svet a Graham podlieha zhubnej žiarlivosti.
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V boha nevěřím, ale někdy mi schází, přiznává se na úvod svého jedenáctého románu Julian Barnes. Shrnuje tím vlastní zkušenost někdejšího ateisty a nynějšího agnostika, který si uvědomuje, za jak početný tábor příslušníků sekularizované éry promlouvá
, když se před čtenáři zpovídá ze svého strachu z umírání a ze smrti. Jeho nejnovější meditace na téma lidské konečnosti má podobu rozsáhlého románového eseje rozebírajícího téma z hlediska rozumu a pragmatičnosti, ale připouštějícího si i tabuizovan
ou hrůzu z neznámého. Román je zároveň obřím a famózním rejstříkem lidské zkušenosti se smrtí, jejíž místo v novověkých dějinách hledá a dokládá na příkladech ze sklonku života předních spisovatelů a dalších veřejných činitelů. Není však vskutku žádn
ý důvod k obavám: autor při tom dovede být zábavný i něžný, moudrý i mrazivý, předvádí bytostné frankofilství a účtuje s ostrovními předsudky. Jeho příspěvek o podstatě našeho konce znovu potvrzuje, proč autor patří k nejlepším anglickým stylistům.
Julian Barnes (1946), prozaik, novinář a překladatel, držitel řady významných evropských literárních cen, proslul např. díly Flaubertův papoušek a Historie světa v 10 1 kapitolách.
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The Lemon Table
The character's in Julian Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with raging defiance. The settings range from nineteenth-century Sweden an
d Russia to a suburban 'Barnet Shop', where the narrator measure out his life in haircuts, and a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign of revenge against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing French' a fierc
ely independent eighty-year old begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. A woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband in 'Appetite'; a retired soldier in 'Hygiene' makes his annual trip to att
end a regimental dinner, run errands for his wife and spend the afternoon with a tart called Babs. In a collection that is wise and funny, clever and moving, Julian Barnes has created characters who passions and longings are made all the stronger by
the knowledge that, for them, time is almost at an end.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah kn
ihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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V boha nevěřím, ale někdy mi schází, přiznává se na úvod svého jedenáctého románu Julian Barnes. Shrnuje tím vlastní zkušenost někdejšího ateisty a nynějšího agnostika, který si uvědomuje, za jak početný tábor příslušníků sekularizované éry promlouvá
, když se před čtenáři zpovídá ze svého strachu z umírání a ze smrti. Jeho nejnovější meditace na téma lidské konečnosti má podobu rozsáhlého románového eseje rozebírajícího téma z hlediska rozumu a pragmatičnosti, ale připouštějícího si i tabuizovan
ou hrůzu z neznámého. Román je zároveň obřím a famózním rejstříkem lidské zkušenosti se smrtí, jejíž místo v novověkých dějinách hledá a dokládá na příkladech ze sklonku života předních spisovatelů a dalších veřejných činitelů. Není však vskutku žádn
ý důvod k obavám: autor při tom dovede být zábavný i něžný, moudrý i mrazivý, předvádí bytostné frankofilství a účtuje s ostrovními předsudky. Jeho příspěvek o podstatě našeho konce znovu potvrzuje, proč autor patří k nejlepším anglickým stylistům.
Julian Barnes (1946), prozaik, novinář a překladatel, držitel řady významných evropských literárních cen, proslul např. díly Flaubertův papoušek a Historie světa v 10 1 kapitolách.
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Staring at the Sun
Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths,
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Changing My Mind
Bestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed—about politics, books, words, memories, and more—in this wise and fascinating new book.
“We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people. It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems to make us stronger and more mature. Well, we would think that, wouldn't we?”
In these engaging and erudite essays, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books, about memories, about age and time.
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Historie světa v deseti a půl kapitolách, 2. vydání
Kniha Historie světa v deseti a půl kapitolách, která začíná vyprávěním nepravděpodobného černého pasažéra o životě na palubě Noemovy archy, představuje překvapivé, podvratné a fiktivní dějiny Země vyprávěné z několika různorodých perspektiv připomínajících kaleidoskop. Noe vystoupí ze své archy, ale on a jeho plavba nejsou zapomenuti: vrací se k nim v jiných staletích a v jiných podnebích – viktoriánská stará panna truchlící nad svým otcem, americký astronaut s obsesivním osobním posláním. Vydáváme se na Titanic, do Amazonie, na vor Medúzy a na církevní soud ve středověké Francii, kde se odehraje dosti bizarní případ...
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Elizabeth Finch
We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.
We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.
She will change the way you see the world.
'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.'
Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoughtful. With measured empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness.
As Neil, a former student, unpacks Elizabeth's notebooks, and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past, and explore key events that show us how to make sense of our lives today. And underpinning them all is the story of J - Julian the Apostate, her historical soulmate and fellow challenger to the institutional and monotheistic thinking that has always threatened to divide us.
This is more than a novel. It's a loving tribute to philosophy, a careful evaluation of history, an invitation to think for ourselves. It's a moment to reflect and to gently explore our own theories and assumptions. It is truly a balm for our times.
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