History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

The laureate of the Buker Prize Julian Barnes is one of the most striking and original prose writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as the “noise of time”, “foreboding of the end”, “England”, “Parrot of Flobert”, “Love, and so on”, "Metrolend" and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play in his works with styles and directions. Thin stylization and caustic irony, sophisticated lyricism and sarcasm that reach cynicism, aggressive rigidity and fun mischief - Barns is subject to all this and much more. In the novel "History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters", he brings the skill of reincarnation to the apogee: he speaks the voice of the insect, "hare" who penetrated the Noah"s ark, and the astronaut who goes to look for this ark on Mount Ararat, he imitates the judicial chronicle of the Middle Ages and meticulously reproduces the true background of the famous canvas of the “Medusa "raft" ", and shows the horror of an instant transition from a prosperous life to a situation where you do something - it will only be worse