LEVELS OF INSPIRATION: FRENCH CONTEXT OF POST-MODERN PROSE BY JULIAN BARNES
The article touches upon the questions of influence of the French confession prose upon the creative activity of the modern English author Julian Barnes and, in particular, on his new novel “Levels of Life”. This piece of literature can hardly be defined according to genre classification and is a sample of a new synthetic genre fusion which is the result of the British prose writer’s keen interest in French literature and culture. Cultural and historical, comparative, historical and typological methods were used to consider the French context of postmodern prose by Julian Barnes