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Julian Barnes, one of the three giants of British literature, a collection of short stories about the truth about the twilight years of life! Julian Barnes is the winner of the Booker Prize. He has won 17 world literary awards and 5 medals of honor. His award-winning record spans all over Europe! The 11 short stories record the changes in people's hearts over the long years and explore the value of life in aging and death. It vividly shows every possibility of growing old, and shows the reality of life in the story of time being slowly squeezed out. When I get old and go through a life of traveling through mountains and rivers, my soul finally becomes broad and peaceful. Lemon Table, a club where it's allowed - or rather, required - to talk about death. The sixty-year-old great writer Turgenev fell in love at first sight with the twenty-five-year-old actress, and burned his last love with his life; he kept dating his old lover every year, but it had nothing to do with sex, it was just an old man's pursuit of the past; an old musician who had run out of inspiration was once famous for his music, but now he is also famous for his long silence.

We think we are maturing, but in fact we are just fine. Middle-aged Tony is very satisfied with his life. He had a career, was married, maintained a good relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, and never tried to hurt anyone else. However, a will from the mother of his old girlfriend shattered all this, forcing Tony to re-explore the mysteries of his youth, and the memories he once believed in became full of doubts. He could sense an ending coming, but the story was completely different.

"Through the Window" contains seventeen literary reviews and one short story published by the writer Barnes in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. Critics include Penelope Fitzgerald, Orwell, Kipling, Ford, Merrimee, Houellebecq, Hemingway, Updike and others. As one of the most outstanding contemporary British novelists, Barnes is also an elegant and witty literary critic. In his writing, the image of the writer emerges vividly on the page: How did Orwell's boarding school experience affect his writing? Kipling traveled in France every year by car. What kind of affection did he have for France? Edith Wharton advanced an astronomical $8,000 royalties to Henry James anonymously; Lydia Davis was not very enthusiastic about "Madame Bovary," but her translation was the best... Through these windows of text, we see what is the best novel and the truth about life.

History keeps repeating itself, "the first time is a tragedy, the second time is a farce." At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

"I hope you will be interested in this course, and I mean real fun, serious fun. Fun and seriousness are not inconsistent. My name is Elizabeth Finch, thank you." Almost everyone fell in love with her, including Neil, who was about thirty-five years old. The first time he came to her class, he vaguely knew that for the first time in his life, he was in the right place. Twenty years later, Yiffin died, and Neil inherited Yiffin's documents and book collection. He hoped to write a biography of Ifine, and the result was this portrait-cum-memoir and the final essay he failed to deliver: on Julian, the last pagan emperor of Rome, whom Ifine calls "a hero who persevered to the end." In the retrieval of memories again and again, Yifen transformed into everything that writer Barnes cherished. What kind of finished product will people, their memory and being remembered, imagination and being imagined be spliced ​​into in the end?