Title: The Man in the Red Coat Pdf
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending—a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. 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 Époque 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.
Typical Barnes brilliance A really original look at the so-called Belle Epoque through the lives of three men.The book itself is beautifully produced on high quality paper with outstanding illustrations.I cannot recommend this too highly.well.... So, this is...OK. The (named) subject is interesting and, at least the gynecological stuff, unusual. But the book reads like Barnes dictated this freestyle and nobody edited it and he didn't think about the shape or narrative. It's riffing. And while the stuff about Pozzi is new (to me), its padded with all the usual stuff about belle époque Paris ... Dreyfus, Wilde, etc. As a magazine piece, fine. Not a real book. And Barnes is very much the....law-giver. His judgements are wild, unsubstantiated, and highly dubious. I don't mean about politics. I mean when he "gets inside" the head of Pozzi's daughter, for example. It just doesn't convince.....This is a fair example of a common type of litterateur book .... a cute idea, hinged on one unusual person or event...but ultimately a rehash of what we all know. And spoke de haut en bas...yet I feel Barnes wrote this very quickly and gave it no thought.An introduction to Belle Epoch France I have been a long-time admirer of Julian Barnes’ literary works having been introduced to him with his “Flaubert’s Parrot”. Since then I have read all his published works (under the name Julian Barnes) and I am happy to say that this one does not disappoint.In it, he used his encounter with the John Singer Sargent painting of “Dr. Pozzi at home” in which Dr. Pozzi, a noted French Surgeon, is painted as a young man in a scarlet robe, as a metaphor for examining the mores, lives and relationships in belle epoch France. We encounter Montesquieu, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Huysmans and other prominent arts and literary people of the era.I would not call this book a biography of Pozzi, but it does cover much of what a biography covers.Barnes, an ardent Francophile, also wrote this work as a screed against Brexit as if Brexit will somehow diminish the longstanding love/hate relationship between France and England. I don’t agree with this for an instant, but I never judge a literary work by the author’s politics.I might add that the book is beautifully produced on fine paper with excellent reproductions of belle epoch paintings and an elegant red ribbon bookmark.
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