ISBN  9788433973740

EL HOMBRE DE LA BATA ROJA


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Autor  JULIAN BARNES
Editorial  ANAGRAMA
Condicion  Nuevo

In the summer of 1885 three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days intellectual shopping: a prince a count and a commoner with an Italian name. In time each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England Answering these questions Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi the society doctor free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent s greatest portraits. In this vivid tapestry of people (Henry James Sarah Bernhardt Oscar Wilde Proust James Whistler among many others) place and time we see not merely an epoch of glamour and pleasure but surprisingly one of violence prejudice and nativism--with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh portrait of the Belle Époque; an illuminating look at the longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France; and a life of a man who lived passionately in the moment but whose ideas and achievements were far ahead of his time.


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