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13 de jun. de 2017 · A slim, stunning masterpiece depicting the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich—Julian Barnes's first novel since his Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending.1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life.
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24 de mai. de 2016 · The Noise of Time is a very different kind of book. One counterpart that came immediately to mind is a contemporary one. In 2002 Martin Amis, Barnes’ sometime friend, published Koba the Dread, a novel about Stalin and while Barnes’ Shostakovich novel is shadowed by the figure of Stalin, the difference is instructive.
The Noise of Time is structured in three sections, each revealing Shostakovich in various states of his career. Compare Shostakovich the composer in Part I versus the composer in Part III. As his position becomes more greatly entangled with the goals of Power, how does his creative output change?
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Quotes from The Noise of Time. “Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.
All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music. An extraordinary portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man, The Noise of Time is a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. Questions and Topics for Discussion. 1. Discuss the passage that opens The Noise of Time.
