Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.
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.
我钦羡那些勇于做自己的人,因为这么做不容易,也不是谁都能做到。 接纳真实的自己一点都不简单,不是谁都愿意去碰自己潜意识的暗流,以及直面这种触碰带来的不安和恐惧。大多人都会选择一种更稳妥和容易的方式来“做自己”,比如美化记忆,不去想潜意识里的暗流。我也这么选择...
评分 评分 评分近三十年来具有全球影响力的英国作家似乎无论是在写作风格上、作品内容上还是在个人经历上都与我们传统印象里英国作家相去甚远。比如说“英国文坛移民三杰”,比如说政治倾向与女权主义倾向明显的多丽丝-莱辛,比如说自始至终喜欢剑走偏锋的麦克尤恩等等。相对于以上这些作...
评分History, to some degree, is indeed the lies of the victors and the self-delusions of the defeat. But when it comes to terms with life, the very core of what happened in the time we live in, is there, or can we possibly state who is the victor and who is t...
The philosophical and dialectical tone throughout belies a weakeness in story-telling and an over-reliance on conveniently melodramatic plot devices. Still a rather enjoyable and quick read about the unreliability of memory and narratives, of old age and remorse, and of the sense of an ending lol.
评分他和天才以前是同學,屬經常在一起討論哲學問題。 他上學時談個女朋友。在分手時有了第一次。 天才上了劍橋。 女朋友甩了主人公,跟了天才。 天才自殺了。 主人公平庸地結婚、生子、離婚,到了六十多歲,成了一個禿頭老爺子。 他和前妻不時見面,計劃著旅行,但從沒有實施。 前妻是個明確的人,而前女友是個謎一般的人。 一天,一個福特夫人給了他五百美金的遺贈,並說要把天才的日記交給他。 他不認識這個福特夫人。後來才發現是前女友的媽媽。 他想拿到天才的日記。死纏爛打地向前女友發郵件。 但前女友回復都很粗略。最後寄回天才日記一頁的照片,另外一個是主人公年輕時罵他們的信件。 他繼續死纏爛打,約了前女友兩次。四十年沒見。 但每次見面她都很冷淡、憤懣。尤其是第二次見到路上由人看護的幾個人後。 他後來猜到,她和天才有一個兒子。而這是
评分听闻改编成电影了于是把这本呆在我长长长长的待读列表许久的书借来看了。读了几十页我就有点后悔,这可能是一本获奖的流水账,撑过去到后面突然exciting起来(rollercoaster indeed)(当然聪明的读者已经发现了什么)。作为一个unreliable narrator来说tony真的是太average了(therefore relatable)但又有点说不上来的可爱。总的来讲是比较有意思但不是很有意思的小说。另外我要质问一下作者为什么要abuse “corroboration”……翻两页就能碰见强行背单词orz
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