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.
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出版时,Julian Barnes在卫报发的小文章。昨天看到上海书评那篇巴恩斯的访谈特激动,里面引用了一些这篇短文的词句,就顺手翻了一下。水平不高,看个参考。(底下三个注释是我自己加的,觉得这样可能更好理解一些。) 本文原文链接: https://w...
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...
評分借到这本书到读完,不到两小时。我在肯德基读它,在地铁上读它,在老肖自己弹奏的钢琴三重奏中读它。 德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇人生中的三个致命时刻,三个他在内心死去过一次的时刻。 他带着行李箱守在电梯口等待被逮捕的时刻。 他在纽约遭受质询,道德和自尊被凌迟处死的时刻。...
評分It's pure heartbreak from start to finish the story. In doing other reading about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, I can honestly say I can't say where the real story ends and Barnes' fictional version takes over. Even those familiar with Shostakovich's life story, it's as if I'm finding it for the first time and my hear breaks all over again.
评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
评分It's pure heartbreak from start to finish the story. In doing other reading about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, I can honestly say I can't say where the real story ends and Barnes' fictional version takes over. Even those familiar with Shostakovich's life story, it's as if I'm finding it for the first time and my hear breaks all over again.
评分My hero is a coward
评分毒 瘤
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