Elizabeth Finch

6 hrs. 9 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Julian Barnes

Narrator Vladimir Golitsyn

Description

First time in Russian—Nedely novel by a contemporary 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. “It’s also a philosophical treatise about everything under the sun.”

So, meet Elizabeth Finch. Listen to her course, “Culture and Civilization.” It will change how you see the world. For her evening students, she is a source of inspiration, a bringer of peace-breaking trouble, a “lightning bolt of advice.” And decades later, Neil (a former actor, an unsuccessful restaurateur, “King of Abandoned Projects”) goes through her notebooks, trying to find the key to the elusive image of a puzzle person named Elizabeth Finch—charismatic, eccentric, an advocate of methodicalness who knows exactly at what moment “history went down the wrong path”: when Julian the Apostate was defeated, the last pagan emperor of Ancient Rome…

“Barnes’s new novel is a mystery novel: an intellectual, philosophical detective story. And also—more precisely, first and foremost—it is an exploration of love in all its forms, not only romantic” (The Sydney Morning Herald).