The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes
Category: Art
Tags: Art, Autobiography & Biographies
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi, In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargents greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life., Pozzis life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine., The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque its
