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2025-04-09
The Noise of Time 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
《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 评分一本幽深地阐释了权力与艺术的关系的书。主人公兼具强大与懦弱。作者试图揭示权力之下一种更真实更日常的状态,那就是当懦夫,通过与权力当局的部分妥协,换取生活的进行、家人朋友的安全。这个过程并不比当英雄容易,因为自我被一块块分裂,内心反复被自己质问。 试图将英雄与...
评分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.
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Barnes把生活的複雜和精神的苦難描繪得太好。
评分Barnes把生活的複雜和精神的苦難描繪得太好。
评分用三个超级长镜头,通过肖斯塔科维奇在一生中最关键的节点上(被党报批判,代表苏联在美国巡演,老年入党)清点自己的生活来讲他的一生,讲在集权下苟活的艺术和艺术家。结构新颖,文字也好,但如纽约时报所说,写肖斯塔科维奇思考人生,但写得更像是小说家思考肖斯塔科维奇思考人生。而且个人认为这种向内层层折叠的叙事结构只适合写短篇,不然读者老是憋着一口气等待叙事浮回现实的时间点,憋得好累。
The Noise of Time 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书