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Original Title:	The Noise of Time
ISBN:	1910702609 (ISBN13: 9781910702604)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dmitri Shostakovich
Literary Awards:	Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)

The Noise of Time Hardcover | Pages: 184 pages

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Title	:	The Noise of Time
Author	:	Julian Barnes
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	January 28th 2016 by Jonathan Cape (first published January 10th 2016)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Music. Cultural. Russia. Literary Fiction

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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, Shostakovitch, 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), Shostakovitch 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 Shostakovitch'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.

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Here I am listening to Shostakovich First Piano Concerto and wondering about Julian Barnes latest novel (?) biography (?). Throughout my reading I was asking myself why had he written this book. I know his interest in classical music. In his The Lemon Table, Vigilance in my favorite short story. It takes place during a concert in which Shostakovichs music is played. Barnes has also dealt with real people in Arthur & George in a highly successful fictional recreation of Sir Arthur Conan

Julian Barnes gives us three riveting episodes in the life and times of Dmitri Shostakovitch. He explores the relationship between the composer and the State. It begins in the 1930s amidst the infamous purges with Shostakovitch waiting and expecting to be taken by agents of the state. His work has been denounced and you can practically smell the fear and paranoia. He is afraid for his family and friends, and his child. He finds himself in a position where he would rather be alive and safe rather

A bit unfair but there were times when I couldnt help wishing Milan Kundera in his prime had written this and not Julian Barnes. Just for that extra bit of zest and wit and daring of which Kundera is renowned and the rather dry and self-conscious Barnes isnt. Not that this isnt a good novel. Its very elegantly structured, intelligent and it makes you think a lot about its pervasive themes - courage and conscience and compromise. And it shows not only the enforced humiliations and blanketing

Unfortunately not as good as I had counted for. I hasten to add theres nothing really to blame the novel for yet somehow it didnt entirely work for me. The writing is very good, its Julian Barnes after all, the idea is more than interesting, the protagonist, to say the least, very complex and ambigous, the setting and times oppressive and ruining personality, yet something was missing.Its a quick reading and I read it, well, four months ago, and to tell the truth, apart from some powerful and

"A soul could be destroyed in one of three ways: by what others did to you; by what others made you do to yourself; and by what you voluntarily did to yourself. Any single method was sufficient; though if all three were present, the outcome was irresistible." Julian Barnes, The Noise of TimeThe last Julian Barnes I read was The Sense of an Ending which seemed to float perfectly as a short novel. The prose was as delicate, smooth and perfect as rosette frosting. I'm not sure Nabokov would want to

Having read and loved Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad I was up to date on the life and work of Dmitri Shostakovich but still had an interest in reading Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time as a friend recommended it to me purely for it's beautiful prose and sentences.This book is presented as a short fictional account of the life of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This for me was a book where nothing much happens and yet everything

This latest work by Julian Barnes looks at the life of the composer Shostakovich. Rather than give us a straightforward, fictional biography, the author takes three key points in his life. He begins in 1936, when the composer finds himself denounced in Stalinist Russia. As critics trip over themselves to find fault with his work, Shostakovich waits dressed and with his small suitcase packed for those in Power to take him to the Big HouseShostakovich was living in a dangerous time and the