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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Barnes, Julian.     Subjects     Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Fiction.     Composers -- Fiction.     Artists -- Fiction.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Barnes, Julian.       by title:      The noise of time / ...       by call number:      FICTION BAR     Search the Web     Barnes, Julian.     Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Fiction.     Composers -- Fiction.     Artists -- Fiction.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The noise of time / Julian Barnes. by Barnes, Julian. Random House of Canada, 2016. Call #: FICTION BAR Subjects Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Fiction.   Composers -- Fiction.   Artists -- Fiction.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction   Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780345816573 (hc) Description:  xi, 201 p. ; 20 cm. Summary:  "The book begins in 1936, with Dmitri Shostakovich petrified at the age of thirty and fearing for his livelihood and even his life. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has just been denounced in Pravda in an article that certainly reflects the opinion of Joseph Stalin himself. Every night he waits on the landing outside his apartment, expecting NKVD agents to come and whisk him away. Shostakovich reflects on not only his predicament but also his own personal history, his parents and his various women and wives and his children, and all who are still alive themselves hang in the balance of his fate. When the interrogation he fears does eventually arrive, a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror that claims so many of his friends and contemporaries--'chips that had flown while the wood was being chopped.' Still, the spectre of the government hovers over him for several further decades, forcing him to constantly weigh the merits of appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes elegantly guides us through subsequent stages of Shostakovich's life, from being ground into the dirt under the thumb of despotism to being made to serve as a figurehead of Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York, and finally being forced into joining the Party. The trajectory of his career illuminates the evolution of the Soviet Union, with Nikita Khrushchev assuming its leadership, this providing no great joy to Shostakovich. The Noise of Time is both a heartbreaking account of a relentlessly fascinating man's experience and a brilliant meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society."--From publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult books Checked out Jul 14, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION BAR Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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