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.
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
"Affecting, profound." (Guardian )
"An alluring-sounding melange of history, fiction and memoir." (Sunday Times )
"While one might expect a Barnes book to impress, delight, move, disconcert or amuse, the last thing for which his work prepares us is the blast of paralysingly direct emotion that concludes Levels of Life. The extraordinary power of the final segment, in which Barnes writes with astonishing precision about mourning and grief, those areas of human experience so often camouflaged with evasion and silence. It's writing so intense that one has trouble meeting its gaze: a love song to "the heart of my life, the life of my heart" as well as a fearsome acknowledgement of the depths of a survivor's grief, when "what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there"." (Tim Martin Daily Telegraph )
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我一開始就是喜歡巴恩斯多過麥剋尤恩,雖然隻看過一本終結的預感。這本書講的是一個熱氣球飛行傢和 法國女演員的故事,最後一章他開始講自己妻子的死。於是熱氣球飛行傢和法國女演員的故事就變成瞭一個寓言,他的瘸腿,瘋狂的愛,和死亡像輪迴一樣,先交付在作者身上,又因為作...
評分轉載自:http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1253123.ece Spoiler Alert!!!!! Oates給Barnes這本新書寫的書評,感覺Barnes是在給自己喪妻後的低迷做辯護,說道他喪妻,我想大概嚴重地改變瞭他的風格,不知是福是禍。 By Joyce Carol Oates How do you turn catastr...
評分我一開始就是喜歡巴恩斯多過麥剋尤恩,雖然隻看過一本終結的預感。這本書講的是一個熱氣球飛行傢和 法國女演員的故事,最後一章他開始講自己妻子的死。於是熱氣球飛行傢和法國女演員的故事就變成瞭一個寓言,他的瘸腿,瘋狂的愛,和死亡像輪迴一樣,先交付在作者身上,又因為作...
評分很私人的寫作。與其說是寫給讀者看的,不如說是Barnes自己的碎碎念。前麵熱氣球的部分讀者不知其所然,第三章悼念亡妻的文字卻是真誠動人。人與人之間本質上時無法對痛苦感同身受的,Barnes不斷寫到舊友們小心翼翼的態度、問他是否好點瞭、有沒有新伴侶,這些都讓他如何的痛苦...
評分轉載自:http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1253123.ece Spoiler Alert!!!!! Oates給Barnes這本新書寫的書評,感覺Barnes是在給自己喪妻後的低迷做辯護,說道他喪妻,我想大概嚴重地改變瞭他的風格,不知是福是禍。 By Joyce Carol Oates How do you turn catastr...
圖書標籤: JulianBarnes 英國文學 英國 英文原版 硃利安·巴恩斯 小說 外國文學 non-fiction
看得整個人心都在流淚。兩個如此相愛的人,如何承受得起這樣的分離。
評分隻讀第三章就好
評分It’s just the universe doing its stuff
評分悶聲裏肝腸寸斷,半晌聽到一點無聲的嗚咽。雖然我並不懂得人與人之間這樣要命的互相依賴。
評分It’s just the universe doing its stuff
Levels of Life 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載