The Genius of Contemporary Classic Literature: the Five Books of Barnes (All Five Volumes)

Barnes, one of the three giants of British literature, wrote about his vast and rich life! "Lemon Table": When I get old and go through a life of traveling through mountains and rivers, my soul finally becomes broad and peaceful. A collection of short stories about aging and death, a classic that Barnes has been working on for eight years. The 11 short stories vividly show every possibility of aging: there is the sixty-year-old great writer Turgenev who burns his last love with his life, there are elderly audience members who always monitor inappropriate behavior at concerts, there are investors who live just to live longer than others... Open "Lemon Table" and see the truth about life in its twilight years! "Arthur and George": Never doubt yourself, after all, only those who believe in themselves realize their ideals. The Booker Prize finalist was voted far ahead of Nobel Prize winners Coetzee and Kazuo Ishiguro! Adapted from real historical events, it records the entire process of "Sherlock Holmes" author Conan Doyle personally handling a case for the only time in his life. This year, Conan Doyle was experiencing the disillusionment of his life ideals: creative bottleneck, his wife's serious illness, and a crisis of faith... In order to get out of the cycle of doubting himself, he decided to personally solve real-life cases and go into battle like Sherlock Holmes... "Arthur and George" is known as a self-help guide for life when you doubt yourself. It will help you who doubt yourself find the courage to face life head-on! "The Questionable Love": Every love is ordinary, and every love is unique. Winner of the Femina Foreign Fiction Prize, one of France's two highest literary awards. "Unquestioned Love" discusses the uncertainty of love, the complexity of human emotions and the unreliability of memory. Memory is developed here as a fictional art, and through the narration of the three protagonists in turn, it causes readers to think about the "truth" of love. "Love, and Others": We will eventually know what else we need besides love. People in the world are divided into two categories. One category believes that love is everything and life beyond that is just "others"; the other category believes that the beauty of life lies precisely in "others." "Love and Others" is the sequel to "Unquestioned Love" ten years later. We will finally know what we need besides love. "Her Past Love": Every past period in which you don't belong to me makes me crazy with jealousy. This book depicts the other side of love, which is so dangerous but may be happening again around you and me. The book's descriptions of psychology, concepts, and several forms of love are precise and intelligent. Every piece of your past that doesn't belong to me makes me crazy with jealousy.