Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as One Story, The Sound of Time, The Sense of the End, Arthur and George, A History of the World 10 1/2 chapters", "Flaubert's Parrot" and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play styles and directions. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, refined lyricism and sarcasm almost reaching the point of cynicism, aggressive toughness and cheerful mischief - Barnes is capable of all this and much more. “Love and So On” is “another demonstration of literary excellence, on the level of Nabokov and Updike” (Book); this is a continuation of the story begun in the novel “The Way It Was,” also composed exclusively of monologues and statements of eyewitnesses - the very ones who, according to the famous Russian proverb, lie so wonderfully. So, over the years, the love triangle receives a new development when Stuart returns from America to the life of the failed philosopher Oliver and the restoration artist Gillian - no longer a modest bank employee, but the owner of his own business... The novel is published in a new translation.