"Through the Window": How to disassemble others' novels in the novels | New Book Shelf

Cover news reporter Zhang Jie

First -class writers interpret first -class writers, like martial arts masters, and the sparks of interest and insight. 2022 is the 90th anniversary of the writer John Upon. In the new book "Through the Window" introduced by Yilin Publishing House a few days ago, British writer Julian Barnes made a interesting interpretation of Updick.

"Through the Window" contains seventeen literary reviews and a short story published by Barnes in recent years. In addition to the Epand, the comment target also includes Pernelop Fitzjerad, Owa, Gyshlin, Ford, Merimi, Welleberg, Hemingway and other writers. In his pen, the image of the writer jumped on paper: How can Owaer's boarding school experience affect his writing? Jiliblin is driving in France every year. What kind of feelings do he have for France? Edice Walton pre -paid $ 8,000 to Henry James for anonymity; Lydia Davis was not very enthusiastic about Mrs. Baofali, but her translation was the best ...

Julian Barnes was born in 1946 and contemporary British writer. Known as "one of the most important and outstanding writers in our time". He is a frequent visitor to major literature awards. He has won the Maom Award, Booker Award, David Kon Literature Award, and Jerusalem Literature Award. And Ian McUn and Martin Emis also called the "British Big Big Big Big Three". Representative works include "The End of the Feeling", "The Parrot of Fulou", "The Noise of Time" and so on.

History, memory, love, old age, and marriage related to personal survival are the creative theme that Barnes is always concerned about. His writing has both traditional British temperament, revealing compassion in coldness and desertation, and is deeply influenced by French literature. He represents European literature and has a pure style.

In addition to being the premier novelist in the British contemporary literary world, Barnes is also an elegant and funny literary critic. While evaluating the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, he wrote: "Pernetlo Pitzjerad's death in a few years, she and I attended a special seminar at York University. . I am not familiar with her, but I admire her. She is shy and embarrassed, as if he is unwilling to accept the name given to her at all: the second British novelist in the world. The grandmother who makes jam looks kind and unreasonable. This is not too difficult, because she is indeed an grandmother, and her letter collection also reveals a small secret -she really makes jams (she really makes jam ( With Indian hot and sour sauce). However, her cover is not convincing, because from time to time, her extraordinary intelligence and natural talent will involuntarily highlight the siege. "

Barnes uses a second -hand bookstore described by a work of a French cartoonist Sangbei to explain what novels are. "In a room upstairs, the high shelf is filled with books, and the floor is empty. Guests, there is only one lamp cover. The right side is a dazzling history. On the left is the corresponding philosophy of arrangement. It is a similar area to the front. A thin man was walking on the left side, wearing a top hat. A thin woman came on the right side of the corner, and wearing a top hat. They could not see each other, but from our favorable position, they came from our favorable position. Look, they are about to meet immediately, and they may also hit a full. Some things will happen, and we are about to witness. This part of the bookstore is called a novel. "

As a reader and a novelist, Barnes has always been convinced that novels can explain and expand their lives than any other form of writing. "Of course, biology can also explain life. Biography, biochemistry, biophysics, biomechanics, and biological psychology can also explain life. But all life sciences have no biography novels. The novel tells us the ultimate truth of life: what what is Life, how do we live, what life is, how do we enjoy and cherish life, how life goes astray, how do we lose it ... In the final analysis, we are narrative animals and the visitors of answers. Good novels rarely provide answers directly, but to ask various questions ingeniously. "

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