Elizabeth Finch. Barnes J.

For the first time in Russian, the latest novel of the modern English classic, “the most elegant stylist and the most unpredictable master of all conceivable literary forms” (The Scotsman). “Elizabeth Finch is much more than just a novel,” writes Catholic Herald. “This is also a philosophical treatise on everything in the world.” So, get acquainted with Elizabeth Finch. Listen to its course "Culture and civilization". She will change your view of the world. For her students, she serves as a source of inspiration, a violator of calm, “counseling lightning”. And decades later, the Nile (a former actor, a failed restaurateur, “King of the abandoned projects”) disassembles her notebooks, trying to find the key to the elusive image of a man-madeest named Elizabeth Finch-a charismatic, eccentric thinker, an apologet of methodology, who knows exactly in which The moment “History went wrong”: when Julian the apostate, the last pagan emperor of Ancient Rome, was defeated... “Barnes’s new novel is a mystery novel: an intellectual, philosophical detective. And also - or rather, first of all, it is a study of love in all its forms, not only romantic ”(The Sydney Morning Held).