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.
“当你年轻的时候,你觉得你可以预料岁月可能带来的痛和凄凉。你想像自己孤身一人,离了婚,寡居;孩子们长大后离你而去,朋友们逐渐死去。你想像自己失去了地位,失去了欲望——以及欲望的能力。你可能会进而考虑自己朝死亡而去,无论你能唤来多少陪伴,这过程也只能独自...
评分巴恩斯曾称布克奖是“一场高级的赌博”,是否能够得奖,完全取决于评委会的成员是谁,他们的喜好是什么,就像是否中彩票一样。但在得奖之后,巴恩斯表示他确实松了一口气。 首先,我要说,这本书真是一件可以放在书架上观赏的艺术品,即使你根本不想阅读,你也...
评分我钦羡那些勇于做自己的人,因为这么做不容易,也不是谁都能做到。 接纳真实的自己一点都不简单,不是谁都愿意去碰自己潜意识的暗流,以及直面这种触碰带来的不安和恐惧。大多人都会选择一种更稳妥和容易的方式来“做自己”,比如美化记忆,不去想潜意识里的暗流。我也这么选择...
评分 评分卧病在床,这本小书是不错的消遣。表面上似乎在表达个人记忆与历史的建构性、不可靠性,但细读之后的直觉是,巴恩斯很巧妙地规避了很多东西,却暗示了更多。叙述技巧是一流的,在故事世界之外反身性地指涉了读者与小说的关系。 人生的终结是死亡,但终结感则是the impossilibility of change;小说的终结是故事最后一个字,但其终结感则是读者体验他者的失败:"You don't get it. You never did"。巴恩斯躲藏在平淡无奇的主人公面具下,残忍地撕破了现代人麻木的感受力和生存状态。Adrian才是他的化身。
评分真 不喜欢这个故事
评分"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."是句厉害的话。不过我还是觉得作者格局不够大,通俗点说就是聪明然而mean mean的。#弃坑!学习!#
评分布克奖实至名归。远高于我的期待,”Elegant, playful, and remarkable“
评分布克奖实至名归。远高于我的期待,”Elegant, playful, and remarkable“
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