THE LEMON TABLE
Book ID/图书代码： 06580008B20629
English Summary/英文概要： A brilliant collection of new stories from Julian Barnes, each dealing with the nuances of life and its inevitable end.
The character’s in Julian Barnes’ new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with raging defiance. The settings range from nineteenth-century Sweden and Russia to a suburban ’Barnet Shop’, where the narrator measure out his life in haircuts, and a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign of revenge against those who cough in concerts. In ’Knowing French’ a fiercely independent eighty-year old begins a correspondence with an author - ’Dear Dr Barnes’ - that enriches both their lives. A woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband in ’Appetite’; a retired soldier in ’Hygiene’ makes his annual trip to attend a regimental dinner, run errands for his wife and spend the afternoon with a tart called Babs.
In a collection that is wise and funny, clever and moving, Julian Barnes has created characters who passions and longings are made all the stronger by the knowledge that, for them, time is almost at an end.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 巴恩斯(Julian Barnes)擅於操弄書寫形式，創作小說時，筆調自由穿梭於虛構敘事、書寫通訊、文學批評以及極富戲劇張力的角色獨白之間，博學、嘲諷但不失感性。他從牛津大學畢業後，先後編過字典、擔任過報刊編輯，並發表無數文藝、影視評論，出版過九部長篇小說，其中包括被翻譯成中文的《福婁拜的鸚鵡》。巴恩斯熱衷以小說探討愛情與藝術創作的挫折，對於歷史與論述的信實度更有尖銳的反思；短篇小說集The Lemon Table延續其一貫關心的主題，唯每個故事的主角都是行將就木的老人，他以獨特的幽默口吻，描寫老年人憶及過往時的脆弱與悔恨，廣受好評。書中甚至以屠格涅夫為主角，寫下”The Revival”一篇，書寫氣勢大器而發人深省。(TT)
Awards/获奖情况：`Taken together, these tales present a powerful account of the snatched joys and encumbrances of decrepitude in well-turned prose that brings wit, charm and gravity to it’s theme’ ---Financial Times, January 11, 2011
’Barnes has created a collection of acute observations which shows him to be at the top of his game’ ---Observer, 20 March
’The stories are unsentimentally affecting; Barnes is here, as
ever, both very clever and extremely funny’ ---London Review of Books
About the Author/作者介绍： Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. He lives in London, England.
Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain’s most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, "Arthur & George" will surely find him an entirely new audience.
朱利安．巴恩斯是英國文壇中生代巨頭之一。作品屢次獲獎。第一部作品Metroland即獲得「毛姆小說獎」（Somerset Maugham Award）。三次獲布克獎提名分別是Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)、England, England (1998)與 Arthur & George (2005)。Talking it Over還曾獲得法國費米娜文學獎（Prix Femina）。朱利安擅長以幽默詼諧的手法將單純的故事帶入諷喻。朱利安‧巴恩斯亦以Dan Kavanagh的筆名寫了數本偵探小說。
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