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.
发表于2024-11-04
The Noise of Time 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
权力羞辱了我们每一个人,有人流血成为了英雄,有人成为了历史上的懦夫,更多的人没有留下名字。但我们应该清楚,权力也双倍、反复地羞辱了懦夫,权力在官方、在私下,权力无处不在,你永远活在羞辱中。 肖斯塔科维奇访美,因为政治立场的问题,他崇敬的斯特拉文斯基拒绝了这次...
评分这是看的巴恩斯第三本书,比起福楼拜的鹦鹉和世界史,这本略微逊色,也许正如作者在后记中说的,他生活在英国自由稳定的政体中,无法感受肖氏在苏联个人独裁政治系统中的恐惧。所以有种隔离感。即使如此,对比当下的中国,读来依旧能感受到肖氏的恐惧和痛苦。我们以为我们所处...
评分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。...
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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.
与其说是传记不如说是苍凉咏叹调 用抗拒的悲伤的目光注视着无法选择的人生。片断式记叙的3个leap year 越到结局越让我几欲落泪。只是至少如今 his music would be...just music
评分与其说是传记不如说是苍凉咏叹调 用抗拒的悲伤的目光注视着无法选择的人生。片断式记叙的3个leap year 越到结局越让我几欲落泪。只是至少如今 his music would be...just music
评分有很多警句穿插在文中,很适合摘抄。 语调非常悲伤。
评分苏黎世转机买的,飞机上读完。字词考究、机智揶揄,写的畅快淋漓全是反话,有一种天啊你居然懂哎!之感,想笑之余想想哑然。黑了很多人包括苏联首长、萨特、美国人道主义者,哲思议论精彩、想法叙述可信,但没有感受那么深切的心理折磨,一需要写心理就有点抽离开始抒情。可能作者也不能够relive那种痛苦吧。总觉这种介于传记和小说之中的文体再那么一抒情就有点像同人文????
评分the strong cannot help confronting, the less strong cannot help evading.
The Noise of Time 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书