![]() The scene begins in the Persian desert in 363 A.D., when the last pagan emperor of Rome, who shares my name, Julian, subsequently known as Julian the Apostate, was killed. Would you set the scene for that for me, please? There is a pretty cheeky idea at the heart of this story, and it's the suggestion that civilization took a serious wrong turn a very long time ago. He examines whether the way we approach life, death and sex would still be recognizable to us in that alternate reality. ![]() Would those of us alive today be profoundly different human beings? ![]() ![]() In Julian Barnes' new novel, Elizabeth Finch, the characters ponder a tantalizing question: What if the ancient Pagans had defeated the then-upcoming religion, Christianity, in the 4th century?īarnes, who won the Booker prize in 2011, considers with Tapestry host, Mary Hynes, how things might have turned out radically different. ![]()
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