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.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
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“當你年輕的時候,你覺得你可以預料歲月可能帶來的痛和淒涼。你想像自己孤身一人,離瞭婚,寡居;孩子們長大後離你而去,朋友們逐漸死去。你想像自己失去瞭地位,失去瞭欲望——以及欲望的能力。你可能會進而考慮自己朝死亡而去,無論你能喚來多少陪伴,這過程也隻能獨自...
評分 評分Short on emotional range, and the narrator is at best unconvincing: arid, willful, and at times shows too much alacrity to shift his "reevaluation" of the past (more so nearer the end of the novel); one also wonders if this meditation on ageing, death and ...
評分我纔開始明白 都因為快樂不能重來今天纔難以釋懷 難忘懷 都因為悲傷不想重復今天更懂得關懷 纔開懷 過去的不該 都變成應該 不能不離開 隻能夠想開 怕什麼愉不愉快 隻記得痛不痛快 誰不是這樣更好活下來 對上一個傷害 對下一個悔改 誰不是這樣越愛越明白 序言說,巴...
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First read as a memoir, then as an account of stream of consciousness, then as a romance, and then as a mystery. Actually it is more like a brief discussion of history: a winner's story or a loser's escaping dream.
評分很好看,但是結尾有點太模糊瞭,或者說委婉的不夠力道。
評分First read as a memoir, then as an account of stream of consciousness, then as a romance, and then as a mystery. Actually it is more like a brief discussion of history: a winner's story or a loser's escaping dream.
評分第一部分非常精彩,中間有點boring,結尾意料之外,很哲學的小書
評分第二本Barnes。讀他總感覺像是在讀一個民國作傢,和董橋老先生差不多的感覺…咳咳咳。Reminds me of Swift's Waterland. Unconsolable sadness embedded with immense peacefulness. Tony is not pathetic, is he? He was just trying to be a part of a grand tragedy, instead, had become a mere witness, which may account for his pretentiousness.memory is a funny thing, can it ever be real?
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