Open Your Eyes. Essay on Art
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Open Your Eyes. Essay on Art
39.99 €
Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the most brilliant and original writers of contemporary Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as The Noise of Time, The Sense of an Ending, Arthur and George, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Flaubert's Parrot and many others.
Julian Barnes calls his first experience in the genre of essays on art the chapter of the sensational dystopian novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989), dedicated to Theodore Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. That is why, already as an independent work, in the collection Open Your Eyes it turns out to be the first of the fascinating short stories about artists and their works, inviting the reader to follow the path of fine art from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day.
These essays contain everything that is traditionally inherent in Barnes's prose: a magnificent sense of style, a virtuoso balance of caustic irony and refined lyricism, sarcasm bordering on cynicism and cheerful mischief. But this is also a collection of subtle, witty and sometimes unexpected observations that provide not only literary pleasure, but also rich food for thought.
This edition includes seven new essays on 19th-century art, which are published in Russian translation for the first time.
Julian Barnes calls his first experience in the genre of essays on art the chapter of the sensational dystopian novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989), dedicated to Theodore Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. That is why, already as an independent work, in the collection Open Your Eyes it turns out to be the first of the fascinating short stories about artists and their works, inviting the reader to follow the path of fine art from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day.
These essays contain everything that is traditionally inherent in Barnes's prose: a magnificent sense of style, a virtuoso balance of caustic irony and refined lyricism, sarcasm bordering on cynicism and cheerful mischief. But this is also a collection of subtle, witty and sometimes unexpected observations that provide not only literary pleasure, but also rich food for thought.
This edition includes seven new essays on 19th-century art, which are published in Russian translation for the first time.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Art book