Across the Channel

Julian Barnes - in his best creative form and in the ideal literary form for his gift...
"Across the English Channel".
A collection of absolutely different stories in terms of plot and style, conceptually united by a common theme.
The English in France.
Barnes plays with this canonical theme for British prose, it seems, in every possible way - from an elegant surrealist experiment and stylization of Latin American modernism to a philosophical parable and a completely classical "psychological novel".