Predpersight of the end

Julian Barnes is perhaps the most striking and original prose writer of modern Britain. And his novel "Predncome of the End" received the Buker Prize - one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. Perhaps the main talent of Barnes 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 comes to cynicism, aggressive rigidity and fun mischief - Barns is subject to all this and much more.
In the class of an elite school, where Tony Webster and his friends Colin and Alex are studying, the brand new - Adrian Finn comes. The inseparable Trinity quickly becomes a four, but Adrian holds on to the hitch: "We forever end up and very rarely spoke seriously. And our new classmate always spoke seriously and very rarely ended up. ” After school, four swear in eternal friendship - and for a long time diverge in different directions, the fault of this is romantic experiences and adult worries, an unexpected tragedy and a desire to quickly throw it out of my head ... And now Tony, who is aged for forty years, receives an unexpected letter from a lawyer and, starting to promote a cunning -span A tangle of causes and consequences, understands that the past, which seemed so simple and clear, is fraught with many shocking surprises ...
In 2017, the film version of this novel is released in the world rental. The main roles in the film were played by Charlotte Rampling, Jim Brodbent, Michelle Dockury, Emily Mortimer, Joe Elvin