Ayrıntı Yayınları Limon Masası / Julian Barnes

In his second collection of stories, "the lemon table," julian barnes once again explores themes of aging and death, and humanity's approach to mortality, as he did in "beyond the pale." All of them, heroes deeply obsessed with aging and death, are brought onto the stage in a variety of locations, geographies, and historical periods. Barnes' characters haven't completely lost the ability to live, love, lie, or deceive, but they're bitter, having grasped at the things they can no longer have by the end of their lives. A narrator who measures your life according to haircuts at different times A famous russian writer who accepted the necessity of basing his life on "abandonment"; A woman who lives in a nursing home and writes crazy letters to the author of the book you have, addressed as “dear dr. barnes”; A music lover who is obsessed with the noise at concerts; A woman who keeps reading extremely detailed recipes to her husband with alzheimer's and is subjected to insults; A middle-aged englishman who witnesses his parents' crumbling marriage and questions the concept of marriage; A swedish lumber merchant who understood that staying alive in life owed it to the deaths of others. Two elderly women who have made it a habit to meet at a cafe and reminisce about the past, but who never seem to truly understand each other. A retired soldier who never fails to see a woman of a lifetime every time he comes to london with the shopping list handed to his wife, and finally, a famous finnish composer who chose silence, the greatest music, after seeing the obligation to sit at the "lemon table" one day. Because, according to the chinese, the lemon is a symbol of death. The lemon table is a table in a restaurant where, once you sit down, it becomes mandatory to talk about death... julian barnes presents a series of stories about the bitterness that old age brings in the lemon table. Moreover, without falling into such a heart-wrenching sensuality... you might think it's a depressing subject; however, these stories, which are expected to be gloomy, become enthusiastic and invigorating as they are illuminated by barnes' cold grasp." daily telegraph