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 2011 Man Booker Prize
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.
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我欽羨那些勇於做自己的人,因為這麼做不容易,也不是誰都能做到。 接納真實的自己一點都不簡單,不是誰都願意去碰自己潛意識的暗流,以及直麵這種觸碰帶來的不安和恐懼。大多人都會選擇一種更穩妥和容易的方式來“做自己”,比如美化記憶,不去想潛意識裏的暗流。我也這麼選擇...
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 ...
評分我欽羨那些勇於做自己的人,因為這麼做不容易,也不是誰都能做到。 接納真實的自己一點都不簡單,不是誰都願意去碰自己潛意識的暗流,以及直麵這種觸碰帶來的不安和恐懼。大多人都會選擇一種更穩妥和容易的方式來“做自己”,比如美化記憶,不去想潛意識裏的暗流。我也這麼選擇...
評分圖書標籤: 小說 Julian_Barnes JulianBarnes 英文原版 英國文學 布剋奬 英國 Julian-Barnes
某些時刻,字裏行間以為見到王小波在英倫。故事情節扣人心弦之餘,毫無意外地散發齣大不列顛重口味。多麼狡黠的一本書。
評分以Tony為視角的敘事主要是在探討時間因為記憶,或者“曆史”,形成的迴潮(也就是後來說的nolstalgia),以及這種迴潮發掘齣來的悲劇與救贖,作者覺得根源還是unrest。但是Adrian那邊書裏隻說瞭冰山一角。
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評分他和天纔以前是同學,屬經常在一起討論哲學問題。 他上學時談個女朋友。在分手時有瞭第一次。 天纔上瞭劍橋。 女朋友甩瞭主人公,跟瞭天纔。 天纔自殺瞭。 主人公平庸地結婚、生子、離婚,到瞭六十多歲,成瞭一個禿頭老爺子。 他和前妻不時見麵,計劃著旅行,但從沒有實施。 前妻是個明確的人,而前女友是個謎一般的人。 一天,一個福特夫人給瞭他五百美金的遺贈,並說要把天纔的日記交給他。 他不認識這個福特夫人。後來纔發現是前女友的媽媽。 他想拿到天纔的日記。死纏爛打地嚮前女友發郵件。 但前女友迴復都很粗略。最後寄迴天纔日記一頁的照片,另外一個是主人公年輕時罵他們的信件。 他繼續死纏爛打,約瞭前女友兩次。四十年沒見。 但每次見麵她都很冷淡、憤懣。尤其是第二次見到路上由人看護的幾個人後。 他後來猜到,她和天纔有一個兒子。而這是
評分他和天纔以前是同學,屬經常在一起討論哲學問題。 他上學時談個女朋友。在分手時有瞭第一次。 天纔上瞭劍橋。 女朋友甩瞭主人公,跟瞭天纔。 天纔自殺瞭。 主人公平庸地結婚、生子、離婚,到瞭六十多歲,成瞭一個禿頭老爺子。 他和前妻不時見麵,計劃著旅行,但從沒有實施。 前妻是個明確的人,而前女友是個謎一般的人。 一天,一個福特夫人給瞭他五百美金的遺贈,並說要把天纔的日記交給他。 他不認識這個福特夫人。後來纔發現是前女友的媽媽。 他想拿到天纔的日記。死纏爛打地嚮前女友發郵件。 但前女友迴復都很粗略。最後寄迴天纔日記一頁的照片,另外一個是主人公年輕時罵他們的信件。 他繼續死纏爛打,約瞭前女友兩次。四十年沒見。 但每次見麵她都很冷淡、憤懣。尤其是第二次見到路上由人看護的幾個人後。 他後來猜到,她和天纔有一個兒子。而這是
The Sense of an Ending 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載