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

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.

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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...  

《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...  

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。...  

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Presumably Barnes at his best.

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My hero is a coward

To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic. That was why the words Soviet Russia were a contradiction in terms.