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2025-04-10
The Noise of Time 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
献给伯特 一个听 一个记 一个饮 ——谚语 这是《时间的噪音》的题记。 无法不听,不能停止记忆,不会停止喝酒。在巴恩斯的笔下,肖斯塔科维奇记下的时代“三和弦”,清除时间的噪音,比所有人所有事活得更长。 置身于所谓的“大时代”,被时间的噪音环绕,并不是什么陌生的、特...
评分借到这本书到读完,不到两小时。我在肯德基读它,在地铁上读它,在老肖自己弹奏的钢琴三重奏中读它。 德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇人生中的三个致命时刻,三个他在内心死去过一次的时刻。 他带着行李箱守在电梯口等待被逮捕的时刻。 他在纽约遭受质询,道德和自尊被凌迟处死的时刻。...
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...
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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.
感情分加一星。将集权控制下艺术家的生存状态描绘地淋漓尽致:终其一生,肖斯塔科维奇都害怕伸过来抓取的手。这是一个一辈子被锁链捆绑的人,一个他人口中的懦夫,作者心中的英雄。最后,在所有的荣誉、羞耻、幻想、徒劳、讽刺都貌似远去后,在肉身终将殒灭的这个世界,会不会有一天——只是有一天——让音乐的归音乐?巴恩斯的笔法一直是严肃的,写精神上的苦难,但不消费苦难。三幕剧用了相同的开头,即使都写到恐惧,也是不同层次的心理状态。结尾的月台与开头呼应,「a triad」是嘈杂时代中飘忽的光,读到这里不禁有些泪目。One to hear/One to remember/And one to drink. 最终,还是有人去倾听,思考,铭记。
评分似乎近来英国作家苏联主题的作品颇多,也都写的很聪明很生动,但永远有一种被犬儒主义侵染的轻浮感。他自己也写的“such contamination of romance was all too likely in the modern world.” 也可能着就是为什么英国人尤其偏爱这种主题?渴望自相矛盾的悲剧。
评分1)不愧是Magdalen毕业的 2)全书最喜欢第二部分结尾写Western hypocrites的部分 3)想知道作者如何这么了解‘恐惧’
评分不知道不了解肖斯塔科维奇生平和音乐的人读着是什么感觉。不太懂这样脑补有什么意思。充满了“我刚发现一个大道理必须讲给你听”的感觉。但是要为第190页(Knopf版)对 irony 的观察加一星。
评分我还是记不住男主的名字(。
The Noise of Time 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书