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.
Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the colour of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should it matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor haunted by a private secret? In "Flaubert's Parrot", Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic) and creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.
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文/吳情 對一個人來說,記憶有多重要呢?我們上學、工作、戀愛、結婚、生育、與人交際……記憶,當事情處於完成時後的殘留、片段,有時連細節都很清楚,有時涉及具體人物都忘卻姓名。人們常常說“活在當下”,殊不知,我們最終能夠擁有的,隻有記憶。記憶構築瞭一個人...
評分用在這本書上的時間並不算多,但感受始終在變化。起初我大概跟所有隨意地想去評論什麼的人一樣想用“有趣”來概括自己的一切觀感,但是嘲諷的情緒埋伏在草率的心情之下,而這也恰恰是作者在寫作這本書時所采取的基本態度,建立於個人智力愉悅感之上的揶揄,因為你不能期待這樣...
評分文/吳情 不知從哪裏聽說過一句話,大意是作傢傳記中不好書寫的部分,不妨用小說的形式間接錶現,畢竟,小說是虛構的藝術。這句話,針對法國作傢福樓拜來說毋寜十分恰當。在浪漫主義與現實主義競相爭奪文學話語霸權的時代,福樓拜幾乎是異常寂寞地經營著自己的小說花園...
評分湯永寬譯本的前言中誤將巴恩斯當作因《福樓拜的鸚鵡》(1984)和《英格蘭,英格蘭》(1998)兩獲布剋奬。實際上,他隻是兩獲布剋奬提名,當年獲得布剋奬的分彆是阿妮塔•布魯剋娜的《旅館》(1984)和伊恩•麥剋尤恩的《阿姆斯特丹》(1998)。在布剋奬曆史上兩度獲奬的作...
評分圖書標籤: JulianBarnes 英國 英文原版 英國文學 小說 外國文學 文學 思辯
小說的形式的突破
評分Julian Barnes真有靈氣。Full of wit, charm, smartness, or smugness, but also helplessness, and grief. Books are neat, life is not.
評分一部雜糅各種文體的“復調小說”;一部福樓拜的傳記和敘事者的自傳;一部對文學批評的戲仿。非常有趣。
評分感覺history genre就是巴恩斯生涯關鍵詞沒跑瞭。這書這麼寫也是蠻考驗作傢把控力的。上一章還在怒斥讀者作傢沒必要按照你們所想去生活,下一章就寫Flaubert其實也是這麼個人,對Colet管太寬;上一章說Colet哪兒哪兒不好,末瞭說或許我該站在她角度寫一寫,下一章真來一篇Colet的自述……Pure story這章看得人真難受,不僅是I switched her off,醫生說truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference,這讓人覺得不管他做什麼都是沒有用的,而他自己也知道這點。(小津認為說著違心的話纔是人之本色,這章裏醫生說瞭那麼多,沒有一句是直白道齣“我很難過”的。)
評分très bon bouquin
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