![]() ![]() Neil signs up for a blandly titled, no-credit night course his life is forever altered. Narrated by a fitfully employed actor named Neil, the book is many things: an academic novel, a critique of cancel culture, a paean to those we learn more from than ever expected. Elizabeth Finchis the latter.īut it is also fun, and not always rigorous. ![]() Understood? There are books you read on the beach and others you read at a desk, pencil at the ready. “I shall expect rigour from you in return. I shall not attempt to stuff you with facts as a goose is stuffed with corn.” Rather, she promises a dialogue and, finally, “rigorous fun.” I shall not be pelting you with pie charts. She speaks “without notes, books or nerves” and continues: “Do not be alarmed. Elizabeth Finch is older, vaguely fallen from grace, teaching an adult-education class. “You will have observed that the title of this course is ‘Culture and Civilisation,’” declares the eponymous subject of Julian Barnes’ 25th novel. ![]()
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