Mostly, of course, they had money some were eccentric, a few certifiably mad. But before knowledge became officially housed in academe, there used to be men and women of the highest intelligence who privately pursued their own interests. That may sound like a euphemism, even a truism. If asked to characterise her professionally, I would say that she was an independent scholar. He lives in London.Įlizabeth Finch was not in any way a public figure. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. Barnes is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. The following is from Julian Barnes's Elizabeth Finch.
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