A review by rebeccazh
England by Julian Barnes

read for school. the writing style is so not my thing, i find myself zoning out while i read. so tbh i don't really know what i read lol. i like the idea of the book a lot. commercializing or abstracting england into its iconic buildings/places... which makes you question what is authenticity and identity. and then in the process, this fake england becomes something real when the actors hired for the roles start to become their roles. it's like what baurdillard(?) says about simulacra (in late capitalism): the simulation/facade becomes all that there is.