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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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...
評分刊於《經觀書評》 “過去永遠不會死,它甚至還沒有過去。”美國小說傢威廉·福剋納在《修女安魂麯》裏的這句經常被引用的名言在硃利安·巴恩斯獲得2011年布剋奬的小說《終結的感覺》裏找到瞭迴應。這部200頁都不到的短小作品遠比它看上去有份量。《終結的感覺》是對時間(主...
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“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...
評分書摘: 這整個追究責任的行為難道不就是一種逃避嗎?我們責備某個個人,目的就是為其餘人開脫罪責。或者呢,我們歸咎於曆史進程,為一個個個體免責……在我看來,似乎有——或者曾經有——一條個體責任鏈,所有責任不可或缺,但此鏈並非無限之長,不然誰都可以輕率歸咎於他人...
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
太囉嗦瞭。When we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
評分聯想到哥本哈根和殺戮演繹,關於記憶的不可靠和不可追溯,和曆史的自欺欺人。Tiiiiiiiiime is on my side. 真是人天大的幻覺。
評分前麵滿滿的格調被最後的狗血真相給毀瞭。
評分臥病在床,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
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