The Noise of Time
by:
Julian Barnes (author)
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So...
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In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes's first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781910702604 (1910702609)
ASIN: 1910702609
Publish date: 2016-01-01
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
And art made tongue-tied by authority,And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill -William Shakespeare, Sonnet LXVI.Η θεματική που εντοπίζεται στο συγκεκριμένο σονέτο, περί της καταπίεσης της κυβέρνησης, πέραν της κοινωνικής ανηθικότητας, ταλανίζει το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του έργου του Barnes. Τ...
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