Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize--- Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy.
He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20 October 2008.
In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovitch reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his children—and all who are still alive themselves hang in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.
Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovitch's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union. The result is both a stunning portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man and a brilliant exploration of the meaning of art and its place in society.
There is no escaping one's destiny。无人可免受命运摆布。这句话在这本薄薄的小书里出现了不下六次。 那么又是谁掌握着肖斯塔科维奇的命运? 《南海十三郎》里说,真正的天才只有两种结局,不是英年早逝如唐涤生,就是精神失常如南海十三郎。肖斯塔科维奇大概提供了另一种...
评分 评分这本书的叙事方式,对我而言是比较陌生的。我记得大概在GXJ的一些片断里有过这样的感觉,一种游离在事件之外冷眼旁观,以一种思想演进的方式来推进情节。 反而前苏联的历史背景显得模糊了。 肖斯塔科维奇这样一个人物,和我想象的处在那样政治高压的情况下的人的表现不太一样。...
评分世人都瞧不起懦夫,崇拜英雄。 懦夫只为了自己能够活下来,唯唯诺诺,尽所有丧尽尊严之事都可以。英雄则为了理想或者是其它崇高的事物,毅然决然的不惜以生命为代价去追求。在文学作品中,歌颂英雄和英雄主义是永恒的主题。 但在《时间的噪音》中,歌颂的却是一位懦夫。 他...
评分《时间的噪音》『英』朱利安·巴恩斯 The Noise of Time— Julian Barnes 译林出版社 ⏱命运。这是一个大词,意味着某些事你无能为力。当生活告诉你,“就这样”,你只好点头,称之为命运。p13 ⏱在一部小说中,他生活中所有的焦虑,他的强大和软弱的混合,他歇斯底里的潜...
我还是记不住男主的名字(。
评分作为一个做过肖氏课题的不合格音乐学研究者,读这样的文学作品时感到由衷的左右为难的困窘。
评分强权下的死亡是多么可怖,又是多么仁慈啊,很惊讶作者作为西方人能理解
评分How not to be a "hero"
评分我还是记不住男主的名字(。
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