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.
一句题外话,现在书籍的腰封简直是太浮夸了,弄的好像没有个奖项、没有什么名人推荐就不好意思初版了似的。 这本《终结的感觉》,以我现在的年龄看来,可能还没有太多共鸣,但是让我想起一些小事。可能这种经历每个人都有,有些记忆可能是因为愧疚,甚至耻辱,永远不想提起,...
評分“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...
評分我才开始明白 都因为快乐不能重来今天才难以释怀 难忘怀 都因为悲伤不想重复今天更懂得关怀 才开怀 过去的不该 都变成应该 不能不离开 只能够想开 怕什么愉不愉快 只记得痛不痛快 谁不是这样更好活下来 对上一个伤害 对下一个悔改 谁不是这样越爱越明白 序言说,巴...
評分对于英国作家朱利安·巴恩斯(Julian Barnes)而言,2011年是收获颇丰的一年。他先是荣获了具有终身奖性质的“大卫·柯恩英国文学奖”,而后又凭借小说《终结感》(The Sense of an Ending)成功捧得布克奖。这部小说在市场上也有不俗的成绩,在英国问世的最初两个月间,就已经创下...
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
评分audiobook讀的超棒!原以為是一齣鬧劇,到最後發現是一場悲劇。徹徹底底的悲劇。關於曆史的定義,不可信的記憶,所留下的記錄,當事人的心態。你覺得自己很成熟,卻隻是選擇避免受傷,把這稱為生存本能,不去考慮年輕時一切的可能性。你淋花,交稅,認真過日子,年邁七十,到底錯過瞭什麼。聽開頭的時候還以為又是那種無病呻吟的書,結果卻寫得這麼好。
评分真 不喜歡這個故事
评分4.5 stars. Barnes is very skillful. It's a thriller and memoir told by an unreliable narrator. A cautionary tale of how history or memory can be deceiving. Superb storytelling and structure. I don't quite like the bleakness though, and being led by Barnes to turn the pages compulsively like a donkey being teased with a carrot.
评分audiobook讀的超棒!原以為是一齣鬧劇,到最後發現是一場悲劇。徹徹底底的悲劇。關於曆史的定義,不可信的記憶,所留下的記錄,當事人的心態。你覺得自己很成熟,卻隻是選擇避免受傷,把這稱為生存本能,不去考慮年輕時一切的可能性。你淋花,交稅,認真過日子,年邁七十,到底錯過瞭什麼。聽開頭的時候還以為又是那種無病呻吟的書,結果卻寫得這麼好。
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