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
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.
發表於2024-12-29
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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When someone repeats the old adage that no one ever put up a statue to a critic, you could always try saying: “Well, Stalin ...” Stalin, of course, was known for rather more than his ear for music, but it would have to be one of the more insulting ironies...
評分原文是今年一月The Noise of Time齣版時,Julian Barnes在衛報發的小文章。昨天看到上海書評那篇巴恩斯的訪談特激動,裏麵引用瞭一些這篇短文的詞句,就順手翻瞭一下。水平不高,看個參考。(底下三個注釋是我自己加的,覺得這樣可能更好理解一些。) 本文原文鏈接: https://w...
評分《見證》風行一時以後,對這個世界而言,肖斯塔科維奇還有秘密嗎?硃利安•巴恩斯要以肖斯塔科維奇為主角寫一本小說,等於給自己設置瞭至少兩道屏障。一是,肖斯塔科維奇的音樂懂的人少但他的故事知道的人不少,小說的基本創作手法就是虛構,用真實的曆史人物做主角,虛構還...
評分《見證》風行一時以後,對這個世界而言,肖斯塔科維奇還有秘密嗎?硃利安•巴恩斯要以肖斯塔科維奇為主角寫一本小說,等於給自己設置瞭至少兩道屏障。一是,肖斯塔科維奇的音樂懂的人少但他的故事知道的人不少,小說的基本創作手法就是虛構,用真實的曆史人物做主角,虛構還...
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Tragedies in hindsight look like farces. Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. A soul could be destroyed in one of three ways: by what others did to you; by what others made you do to yourself; and by what you voluntarily chose to do to yourself.
評分毒 瘤
評分一聲嘆息!欣賞肖斯塔科維奇的人需要有一個不膚淺的靈魂。
評分肖斯塔科維奇身上有所有我認為的藝術傢氣質,縴弱、神經質、自我、怯懦和純粹 “egotistical and pessimistic“ “an optimistic Shostakovich”本來就是個矛盾的詞組,music for the People令人惡心。音樂隻是音樂而已,一切工具化都是犯罪。怯懦的背麵是自我嘲諷自我死亡,怯懦需要勇氣啊
評分準備三刷。Barnes is at his best when writing about artists.
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