The noise of time
by Julian BarnesOne of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life.
Stalin, hitherto a distant.
- First published
- 2017
- Publishers
- Vintage Books
- Subjects
- Composers·Politics and government·History·Nationalism and communism·Communism and society·Fiction
- Language
- English
I'm not sure what to think about this genre of fictional memoir but since it is about one of my favorite composers, Dimitri Shostakovich, I'm willing to indulge. A portrait of an artist struggling with The Power of the Stalin regime, and successive communist party leaders, as he falls in and out of favor is melancholy at best.
I'd probably give this 2.5 [?
About Julian Barnes
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.(Wikipedia)...
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