Lurid tale of a womanising surgeon ... and Brexit
Julian Barnes’ ‘The Man in the Red Coat’, set in Paris of the Belle Époque, points to parallels between two ages of extreme nativism, nationalism and xenophobia
31 October 2019 - 05:05
Julian Barnes first saw the full-length painting that would feature on the cover of his new book, The Man in the Red Coat (Jonathan Cape), at an exhibition in London’s National Portrait Gallery in 2015.
He was struck, he admits, by the rather decadent crimson dressing gown worn by its subject, an enigmatic-looking bearded man posing in front of burgundy velvet curtains...
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