Julian Barnes: Elizabeth Finch
Elizabeth Finch
Buch
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 07/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780593468920
- Bestellnummer: 11150795
- Umfang: 192 Seiten
- Gewicht: 204 g
- Maße: 206 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.7.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography."I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." -John Self, The Times
This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class "Culture and Civilisation," taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp, Elizabeth's application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does.
In Elizabeth Finch, we are treated to everything we cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unorthodox forms love can take between two people, a compelling swerve into nonfictional material (this time, through Neil's obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following on notes Elizabeth left for him to discover after her death), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives.
Biografie
Julian Barnes, 1946 in Leicester, England, geboren, arbeitete nach dem Studium moderner Sprachen als Lexikograph, dann als Journalist. Von Barnes, der zahlreiche internationale Literaturpreise erhielt, liegt ein umfangreiches erzählerisches und essayistisches Werk vor. Julian Barnes lebt in London.![Julian Barnes: Elizabeth Finch, Buch](https://media1.jpc.de/image/w468/front/0/9780593468920.jpg)
Julian Barnes
Elizabeth Finch
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