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2024-11-21
The Noise of Time 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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《时间的噪音》『英』朱利安·巴恩斯 The Noise of Time— Julian Barnes 译林出版社 ⏱命运。这是一个大词,意味着某些事你无能为力。当生活告诉你,“就这样”,你只好点头,称之为命运。p13 ⏱在一部小说中,他生活中所有的焦虑,他的强大和软弱的混合,他歇斯底里的潜...
评分《见证》风行一时以后,对这个世界而言,肖斯塔科维奇还有秘密吗?朱利安•巴恩斯要以肖斯塔科维奇为主角写一本小说,等于给自己设置了至少两道屏障。一是,肖斯塔科维奇的音乐懂的人少但他的故事知道的人不少,小说的基本创作手法就是虚构,用真实的历史人物做主角,虚构还...
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...
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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.
或许我正活在一个很适合读这本书的年代 像做梦一样 刹不住车
评分Barnes把生活的複雜和精神的苦難描繪得太好。
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the strong cannot help confronting, the less strong cannot help evading.
评分有很多警句穿插在文中,很适合摘抄。 语调非常悲伤。
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