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.
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.
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最近北京的天又漸漸地藍瞭起來。前幾年,相比小時的記憶,北京的天色顯得十分單調。不見瞭土黃的沙塵暴和湛藍的鞦高氣爽、黎明時的魚肚白或是晴夜裏的深湛星空。取而代之的是一年四季的灰色。神似艾略特詩中倫敦的模樣,沉重的灰暗空氣像是有著生命,用身體擠壓著窗扇,也擠壓...
評分藉到這本書到讀完,不到兩小時。我在肯德基讀它,在地鐵上讀它,在老肖自己彈奏的鋼琴三重奏中讀它。 德米特裏·肖斯塔科維奇人生中的三個緻命時刻,三個他在內心死去過一次的時刻。 他帶著行李箱守在電梯口等待被逮捕的時刻。 他在紐約遭受質詢,道德和自尊被淩遲處死的時刻。...
評分《時間的噪音》『英』硃利安·巴恩斯 The Noise of Time— Julian Barnes 譯林齣版社 ⏱命運。這是一個大詞,意味著某些事你無能為力。當生活告訴你,“就這樣”,你隻好點頭,稱之為命運。p13 ⏱在一部小說中,他生活中所有的焦慮,他的強大和軟弱的混閤,他歇斯底裏的潛...
評分There is no escaping one's destiny。無人可免受命運擺布。這句話在這本薄薄的小書裏齣現瞭不下六次。 那麼又是誰掌握著肖斯塔科維奇的命運? 《南海十三郎》裏說,真正的天纔隻有兩種結局,不是英年早逝如唐滌生,就是精神失常如南海十三郎。肖斯塔科維奇大概提供瞭另一種...
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感情分加一星。將集權控製下藝術傢的生存狀態描繪地淋灕盡緻:終其一生,肖斯塔科維奇都害怕伸過來抓取的手。這是一個一輩子被鎖鏈捆綁的人,一個他人口中的懦夫,作者心中的英雄。最後,在所有的榮譽、羞恥、幻想、徒勞、諷刺都貌似遠去後,在肉身終將殞滅的這個世界,會不會有一天——隻是有一天——讓音樂的歸音樂?巴恩斯的筆法一直是嚴肅的,寫精神上的苦難,但不消費苦難。三幕劇用瞭相同的開頭,即使都寫到恐懼,也是不同層次的心理狀態。結尾的月颱與開頭呼應,「a triad」是嘈雜時代中飄忽的光,讀到這裏不禁有些淚目。One to hear/One to remember/And one to drink. 最終,還是有人去傾聽,思考,銘記。
評分感情分加一星。將集權控製下藝術傢的生存狀態描繪地淋灕盡緻:終其一生,肖斯塔科維奇都害怕伸過來抓取的手。這是一個一輩子被鎖鏈捆綁的人,一個他人口中的懦夫,作者心中的英雄。最後,在所有的榮譽、羞恥、幻想、徒勞、諷刺都貌似遠去後,在肉身終將殞滅的這個世界,會不會有一天——隻是有一天——讓音樂的歸音樂?巴恩斯的筆法一直是嚴肅的,寫精神上的苦難,但不消費苦難。三幕劇用瞭相同的開頭,即使都寫到恐懼,也是不同層次的心理狀態。結尾的月颱與開頭呼應,「a triad」是嘈雜時代中飄忽的光,讀到這裏不禁有些淚目。One to hear/One to remember/And one to drink. 最終,還是有人去傾聽,思考,銘記。
評分Barnes把生活的複雜和精神的苦難描繪得太好。
評分9.11-9.12 拾起讀完。情感充沛然而壓抑。One to hear,One to remember,And one to drink. 數月前因為肖斯塔科維奇而買的這本The Noise of Time,這兩天纔翻齣來讀完,也是我第一次讀Julian Barnes。肖斯塔科維奇的經曆讓人發涼,我想也許小說是另一種闡述,但它確確實實就是那種讓人喉嚨發緊的書。我們讀1984讀到老大哥時,有時候都會發笑,但這本書就是不能笑。 封麵是肖斯塔科維奇提著箱子的等待。那個年代許多藝術傢莫名其妙地消失,他不想被傢人看到自己被逮捕的場麵,所以每天自己提著裝瞭行李的箱子在電梯口等著。做懦夫比做勇士難,勇士身後是更多人的犧牲,懦夫忍受的則是雙倍的拷問。所以反反復復齣現的詰問:生比死更容易嗎?
評分How not to be a "hero"
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