Life Levels

Levels of Life, which begins with trial trailers on ballooning, the art of photography and love, continues with the ever-repeating leitmotif of the author's pen: "You bring together two things that have never been brought together before, and life changes". It is read with the optics of the metaphor of "rising up/going down" and eventually becomes a very different and touching personal mourning narrative.

Julian Barnes, starting from the search for "common motifs" between different lives, XIX. By traversing the life stories of Nadar, the well-known photographer of the 19th century, Sarah Bernhardt, the famous theater actress of the same century, and Fred Burnaby, an adventurous colonel from the same century, through interesting anecdotes, he reaches his own experience of age in the last chapter of his book:
< It describes the deep void left behind by his wife, whom he lost in 2008 and to whom he dedicated all the books he wrote, and presents in a striking and thought-provoking manner the multi-layered space of the feeling of "grief" that emerges, the gigantic dimensions of grief, the suffering of being alone and loneliness, and some of the solutions that are assumed to relieve this suffering. questions with language.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 96

Print Year: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Publications

First Edition Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 96

Language: Turkish