JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty previous books including, most recently, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
www.julianbarnes.com
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending.
In 1936, Shostakovich, 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), Shostakovich 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 Shostakovich’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.
When someone repeats the old adage that no one ever put up a statue to a critic, you could always try saying: “Well, Stalin ...” Stalin, of course, was known for rather more than his ear for music, but it would have to be one of the more insulting ironies...
评分谈到英国小说家朱利安·巴恩斯,普通读者和尖刻的评论家首先会想到的一个词是:聪明。这不仅仅指巴恩斯总能带给人新鲜的感觉(特别是在小说内容趋向同质化的今天),而且还在于巴恩斯似乎总能找到最贴切的叙述方式,更不用提语言的精炼和美感,以及层出不穷的金句。从《福楼拜...
评分 评分最近北京的天又渐渐地蓝了起来。前几年,相比小时的记忆,北京的天色显得十分单调。不见了土黄的沙尘暴和湛蓝的秋高气爽、黎明时的鱼肚白或是晴夜里的深湛星空。取而代之的是一年四季的灰色。神似艾略特诗中伦敦的模样,沉重的灰暗空气像是有着生命,用身体挤压着窗扇,也挤压...
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。...
一声叹息!欣赏肖斯塔科维奇的人需要有一个不肤浅的灵魂。
评分本来非常期待朱利安巴恩斯和肖斯塔科维奇的组合,但这种威权统治下艺术家的身不由己和挣扎,对于中国人来说实在太见怪不怪了,巴金老舍郭沫若都够写出一堆来。这样的题材适合更锋利尖锐的作家,遗憾巴恩斯并没有做出让人惊艳的发掘和发挥,除了重温一下本已熟悉的传记材料,并无多少回味思考余地。
评分肖斯塔科维奇身上有所有我认为的艺术家气质,纤弱、神经质、自我、怯懦和纯粹 “egotistical and pessimistic“ “an optimistic Shostakovich”本来就是个矛盾的词组,music for the People令人恶心。音乐只是音乐而已,一切工具化都是犯罪。怯懦的背面是自我嘲讽自我死亡,怯懦需要勇气啊
评分Presumably Barnes at his best.
评分本来非常期待朱利安巴恩斯和肖斯塔科维奇的组合,但这种威权统治下艺术家的身不由己和挣扎,对于中国人来说实在太见怪不怪了,巴金老舍郭沫若都够写出一堆来。这样的题材适合更锋利尖锐的作家,遗憾巴恩斯并没有做出让人惊艳的发掘和发挥,除了重温一下本已熟悉的传记材料,并无多少回味思考余地。
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