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Portrait of a man in red

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Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the most brilliant and original writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as One Story, The Noise of Time, The Sense of an Ending, Arthur and George, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Flaubert's Parrot, Elizabeth Finch and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and directions. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, refined lyricism and sarcasm bordering on cynicism, aggressive harshness and cheerful mischief - Barnes is master of all this and much more. "To what genre should The Portrait of a Man in Red be attributed - historical, biographical or philosophical?" asked the Independent newspaper; and it itself answered: "To all three at once! Before us is the perfect guide to an amazing era." So, meet Samuel Pozzi, a fashionable Parisian doctor of the late 19th century, the father of modern gynecology and a legendary womanizer; in a word, the same “man in red” depicted in Sargent’s famous portrait “Doctor Pozzi at Home”. Through the prism of the doctor’s journey to Foggy Albion, equipped with a letter of recommendation from Sargent to Henry James, Barnes examines the Belle Époque in all its diversity, and the reader cannot help but draw alarming parallels with today. And the doctor is not traveling alone: he is accompanied by refined aristocrats Prince de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquiou, the prototype of Baron de Charlus from Proust’s epic “In Search of Lost Time”.
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