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جولین بارنز با قلم شیوای خود دراین رمان به زندگی دیمتری شوستاکوویچ آهنگساز بزرگ روس می پردازد.
سوالی که از خود پس از خواندن کتاب می پرسی این است ، گفتمان های قدرت تا چه میزان صداقت هنری هنرمندان را تحت الشعاع خود قرار دادند ؟ جولین بارنز از زبان شوستاکوویچ می گوید به آثارم توجه کن نه به گفته هایم
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pickThis novel, by Julian Barnes, is about the life of Shostakovich (Russian composer) during Stalin's reign in Russia. It is Brilliant! I loved the way it was written, in short compact episodes, which made not much sense at first but if you persevere it all comes together quite quickly. Highly recommended for historical fiction buffs. I'm even going to try to write something in this style and format. Maybe a short story.
Midnight: just finishing a great book, listening to the rain and my dog's breathing as he sleeps in his bed. All else is calm and quiet. Bliss.
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(My husband's on a business trip, so no snoring!)
pickMy book club meeting to discuss this book is in a few hours.
As usual, I started the book way too late, but as soon as I picked it up, I read it pretty much in one sitting.
Almost more character-study than novel, this book explores the interaction between art, state and memory. The language is gorgeous and Shostakovich a fascinating character. I‘m interested in learning more about the real-life version.
#SeptemberDanes #rocketbrothers I saw this book The Noise Of Time in my sons house yesterday while I was minding my little granddaughter...
it kind of works for #rocket 🚀🚀
panNo wonder I haven't read any books by straight white cis dudes in years. This is the kind of mediocre 'lit fic' shit that gets nominated for the Booker?? As dry as a piece of toast left out in the sun. If I could have hated this I probably would have enjoyed reading it more, but alas it only bored me to tears. A few cleverly put phrases about art do not an engaging novel make.
This is the pick for the book club I'm going to be running at the library I work at, so I have to read it. It sure feels weird to be reading a lit fic book by and about a straight white dude. Haven't done that for years, literally.
pickReceived this book from our book club Xmas. It‘s a fictional story of the Russian composer Shostakovich but so much more. I finished it this morning and I‘m sure I‘ll be thinking about it for some time. Highly recommend. So many great quotes also. Having never read one of his books before, I am impressed. Very talented. @MrsMalaprop
"Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul" p. 175
"She was not fitted for domesticity [...] neither by temperament nor habit."
Another fascinating perspective on courage, and maybe how real life would pan out. Shostakovich lived so long , he found himself being coerced into appending his name to denunciations of, to name a few,Chekhov, Stravinsky, Solzhenitsyn, and his own opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk.
Lovely paragraph in a book filled with passages that make you stop and think. Easy to criticise others for not standing up to power when you have nothing to lose from it. I found it particularly haunting that Shostakovich would pack and wait every night to be called in for questioning, instead of being taken by surprise.Also interesting to read of his public humiliation by Nicolas Nabokov, from his perspective.
pickEven though the cover says it's a novel, I count this one as non fiction. An interesting account of the life of my favorite composer, told in a narrative setting. Super cool if you like Russian history or music history. #5555giveaway
Lucy: “This book is about this musical composer I‘m really interested in, Dmitri Shostakovich. He was an artist during Stalin‘s rule when composers were employed by the state. Their art was very tightly controlled and restricted. Despite being oppressively scrutinized, Shostakovich managed to somehow please the state while making incredibly personal, beautiful music. It was a terrible but interesting time in history.”
pickWhat a brilliant book! (finished on my tube home). Shostakovich and his struggle with Power and integrity over a lifetime in Soviet Russia. And you don't need to know much (anything!) about his music. But I want to find out more now.
pickBarnes shows real sensitivity to Shostakovich's music and source material. His memoir feels true - and speaks to the noise of our time. #HistoricalFiction #StalinistRussia #Music #fascism #Shostakovich
This book is endlessly quotable. The well-turned thought or phrase is where the real action is - plot sidles along in an occasional, offhand way. Can sometimes read almost as a series of very good tweets - but the voice of Shostakovich is impeccably imagined, and precisely composed.
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
Glass of red wine and a good novel about socialist realism and the 1930s purges of Soviet Union.... oooft what more could I ask for?
"Good music would always be good music"
Finito! Going to make some tea, take a shelfie then get on with the next book on my list :D
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On the bus but close enough. On my way to the coffee shop and then the library I volunteer at. Make no doubt that I will continue my reading exploits until the second I serve my first customer in the library!
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"Yes, yes, I see your point. I'm sure you're right. But let's leave it for now. We'll make that change next time round."
Me whenever I see how I could improve my life in some way. :')
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Making green tea and getting ready to slice this mofo in half for #24in48readathon #24in48 #julianbarnes #thenoiseoftime #tea #greentea #teacup
As someone who's never in their life studied Soviet Russia, this is a pretty challenging read :'). I'm enjoying it but at the same time it's burning my brain trying to understand most of it haha. #bestseller #julianbarnes #thenoiseoftime #sovietrussia
pickI don't know much about Shostakovich beyond his music so it was fascinating to see the parallels and divergences between his life under communism and those of other Russian intelligentsia, particularly Bulgakov. This is a fictionalised account but it's a great study (and a timely reminder) of how people are forced to bend and break under overweening Power. Does anyone else make playlists to go with their reading material?
An old favourite for dinner (prawn and artichoke spaghetti), a new book and cupcakes awaiting. Best of all, it's Friday tomorrow and there's a whole weekend of reading ahead 💛
pickOur Fiction Book of the Month comes from the inimitable Julian Barnes; The Noise of Time is his first novel since The Sense of an Ending and it is an absolute masterpiece.
"Irony, he had come to realise, was as vulnerable to the accidents of life and time as any other sense. You woke up one morning and no longer knew if your tongue was in your cheek..."
pickA book about how being declared enemy of the state affects not only you but your family as well, when you live in a country with one all powerful leader. Even if this is fiction I can still feel the protagonist's agony. A powerful, but short read.
"If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something."
I said I wasn't going to read anything I have already finished so I could tackle my #tbr pile but this novel though...I couldn't resist picking it back up for a second read #firstreadofdec #youagain #couldntforgetit
Julian Barnes explores what it was to be Dmitrii Shostakovich and to consider the place of art in life, society and one's soul.
"Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense."
pickI read about Stalin seeing Shostakovich's opera and having a terrible time and then declaring him a Former Person literally days before Mike Pence saw Hamilton and had a bad time and Trump called on the cast to apologize.
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