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.
發表於2024-05-06
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一句題外話,現在書籍的腰封簡直是太浮誇瞭,弄的好像沒有個奬項、沒有什麼名人推薦就不好意思初版瞭似的。 這本《終結的感覺》,以我現在的年齡看來,可能還沒有太多共鳴,但是讓我想起一些小事。可能這種經曆每個人都有,有些記憶可能是因為愧疚,甚至恥辱,永遠不想提起,...
評分besides others * Everyday is Sunday. 多好的墓誌銘啊 * Automatically, I ate a chip. Then another. There wasn’t enough salt on them. That’s the disadvantage of fat chips. They have too much potatoey inside. With thin chips, not only is there more crispy o...
評分 評分 評分圖書標籤: JulianBarnes 英國 小說 布剋奬 英文原版 硃利安·巴恩斯 英國文學 Booker
臥病在床,這本小書是不錯的消遣。錶麵上似乎在錶達個人記憶與曆史的建構性、不可靠性,但細讀之後的直覺是,巴恩斯很巧妙地規避瞭很多東西,卻暗示瞭更多。敘述技巧是一流的,在故事世界之外反身性地指涉瞭讀者與小說的關係。 人生的終結是死亡,但終結感則是the impossilibility of change;小說的終結是故事最後一個字,但其終結感則是讀者體驗他者的失敗:"You don't get it. You never did"。巴恩斯躲藏在平淡無奇的主人公麵具下,殘忍地撕破瞭現代人麻木的感受力和生存狀態。Adrian纔是他的化身。
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.
評分論記憶之不可信
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"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."是句厲害的話。不過我還是覺得作者格局不夠大,通俗點說就是聰明然而mean mean的。#棄坑!學習!#
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