Pulse

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 “noise of time”, “foreboding of the end”, “England, England”, “Parrot of Flaubert”, “History of the World at 10 1/ 2 chapters ”,“ Love and so on ”,“ Metroland ”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 comes to cynicism, aggressive rigidity and fun mischief - Barns is subject to all this and much more. In his recent collection, Barnes “again demonstrates the master class of the literary form” (Saturday Telegraph) This is a “deep, sincere collection of a masterly made mini-soviet” (Time out) not just entitled the “pulse”: Barnes"s stories are subordinated to one or another rhythms and cycles-friendship and enmity, delight and disappointment, love and death