Portrait of a man in red

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 bestseller as “one story”, “noise of time”, “foreboding of the end”, “Arthur and George”, “The History of the World in 10½ chapters” , Parrot of Flaubert and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and directions. Thin stylization and caustic irony, sophisticated lyricism and sarcasm that is almost cynic, aggressive rigidity and fun mischief - Barns is subject to all this and much more.
What genre should Portrait of a man in red - historical, biographical or philosophical? - asked the newspaper Independent, and she herself answered: “To all three at the same time! Before us is an ideal guide for an amazing era. ” So, get acquainted with Samuel Potzzi - the fashionable doctor of the late 19th century, the father of modern gynecology and the legendary womanizer, in a word, thereby the “man in red” depicted on the famous portrait of Sargent"s brush “Dr. Pozti at home”. Through the prism of the doctor’s travels, equipped with a letter of recommendation from Sargent Henry James, Belle époque (a beautiful era) in all her diversity, and the reader cannot but conduct an alarming parallels with today"s day. Moreover, the doctor goes not alone: ​​the company is drawn up by the refined aristocrats Prince de Polynyak and Count Robert de Monteskeu - the prototype of Baron de Charlus from the epic of Proust “In search of the lost time”.
For the first time in Russian!