The Noise of Time

JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty previous books including, most recently, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.www.julianbarnes.com

出版者:Knopf

作者:Julian Barnes

页数:224

出版时间:2016-5-10

价格:USD 16.79

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781101947241

图书标签:小说传记音乐英国英语没买实体外国文学俄国

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A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending.

In 1936, Shostakovich, 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), Shostakovich 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 Shostakovich’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.

读后感

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...  

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。...  

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...  

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...  

用户评价

毒 瘤

肖斯塔科维奇身上有所有我认为的艺术家气质，纤弱、神经质、自我、怯懦和纯粹 “egotistical and pessimistic“ “an optimistic Shostakovich”本来就是个矛盾的词组，music for the People令人恶心。音乐只是音乐而已，一切工具化都是犯罪。怯懦的背面是自我嘲讽自我死亡，怯懦需要勇气啊

Presumably Barnes at his best.

本来非常期待朱利安巴恩斯和肖斯塔科维奇的组合，但这种威权统治下艺术家的身不由己和挣扎，对于中国人来说实在太见怪不怪了，巴金老舍郭沫若都够写出一堆来。这样的题材适合更锋利尖锐的作家，遗憾巴恩斯并没有做出让人惊艳的发掘和发挥，除了重温一下本已熟悉的传记材料，并无多少回味思考余地。

毒 瘤