PULSE
Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B40908
English Summary/英文概要： The stories in Julian Barnes’ long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In ‘East Wind’ a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite his happiness, to investigate her past; in ‘The Limner’ a deaf painter discovers his patron’s likeness after spending time among his staff. Anchored off the coast of Brazil, Garibaldi spies his future wife through a telescope, and in ‘Marriage Lines’, a widower returns to a remote Scottish Island to relive a favourite holiday.
These are also lives in flux - in the ‘stages, transitions, arguments; incompatibilities which grow’ - as in the title story, where a man reflects on the break-up of his marriage, brought into new perspective by the actions of his parents; two writers, a ‘good team’, return from an event rehearsing familiar arguments; in ‘Gardener’s World’, a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches.
Positioned in between are a series of evenings at ‘Phil & Joanna’s’, where among the topics of conversation – the environment, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti and the perils of smoking – we witness the guests’ lives shift in sections over the course of a year.
Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark, each imbued with the humour, poignancy and perception that marks all Julian Barnes’ work. This is an imaginative and expertly-constructed new collection from a master of the form.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《巴恩斯作品：脉搏》是巴恩斯继《柠檬桌子》后新的一部短篇小说集。两位相交甚笃的女作家重提昔日的床笫之争；一对孩子气的夫妇在园艺之事上争论不休；凡事皆有计划的徒步旅行爱好者在与新女友的旅行中审慎地规划着恋情；失去嗅觉的丈夫求助于中医，希望神秘的脉搏带他重新找回妻子身上的美好味道……这些语言精致、辛辣，温情而又彷徨的人生故事，折射出巴恩斯步入晚年后对爱、渐老、死亡更为通透的体察。朱利安·巴恩斯在短篇小说集《脉搏》中注入了饱满且敏锐的人生体察,在平凡的情感关系与细微的情感变化中表现出脉脉温情,在人生态度、婚恋价值观等方面表现出反复的游移与彷徨,在焦虑的情绪中继续对人生与人性进行执着探索,凸显了一位作家所应具有的人文主义关怀。
Awards/获奖情况：`Barnes’ stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well’ ---Literary Review, December 6,2010
`The prose is crisp and elegant, light on its feet but resonant with pathos, and flecked with acute observations that never fail to strike a vivid chord with the reader.... It all makes for a diverse, entertaining collection, alternating between plangency and playfulness’ --- Tatler, December 6, 2010
`one of the most civilized and culturally rich brainscapes in contemporary fiction’ ---Sunday Times, January 7, 2011
`The stories are intelligent: emotionally, stylistically and intellectually. Aesthetically. Also, innovative and experimental without being pretentious or inaccessible. And, oh yes, beautifully written.’ ---The Irish Times, January 7, 2011
’the writing is as clear, as wry, dry and elegant as ever’ ---The Times, January 7, 2011
`The promise shown by some of the other bright young stars of Barnes’s generation has faded or fizzled out. His own star continues to shine. This is a delightful collection’. ---The Scotsman, January 7, 2011
`masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists’ ---Saturday Telegraph, January 7, 2011
`The ways in which human beings misunderstand each another are infinite in their variety, and in his latest volume of stories Julian Barnes describes some of them.’ ---Sunday Telegraph, Jane Shilling, January 11, 2011
`With Pulse Barnes reminds us once again that he is a master of the small story...A joy during the act of reading and a source of many complicated afterthoughts, Pulse is a deep and sincere collection of beautifully crafted short fictions. This is an immediate best book of the year that will take some beating in 2011’ ---Time Out, January 11, 2011
`The artful arrangement of the short stories in Julian Barnes’s new collection dramatizes the conventional split between mind and body’ ---The Independent, January 11, 2011
`In this, and each of these elegant, understated, often affecting stories, Barnes shows a profound understanding of the fluctuating currents and ambiguities between friends and lovers. Like a pulse, their rhythm changes with circumstance and health, time and age. And like a pulse, they offer hope’ ---Sunday Herald, January 11, 2011
`By turns compassionate and critical, witty and poignant, this is writing to revel in’ ---Daily Mail, January 11, 2011
About the Author/作者介绍： 朱利安·巴恩斯（Julian Barnes，1946年1月19日—），后现代主义文学作家。1946年生于英格兰中部的列斯特，1968年牛津大学毕业，曾参与《牛津辞典增补本》的编纂工作，著有长篇小说九部和侦探小说四部，曾四度获得布克奖提名（1984、1998、2005、2011），并在2011年以《终结感》获得布克奖，以1984年《福楼拜的鹦鹉》最为脍炙人口。是获得梅迪西文学奖（《福楼拜的鹦鹉》）和费米娜奖（《尚待商榷的爱情》）的唯一英国作家。Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, including Metroland, Flaubert’s Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters and Arthur & George; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in London.
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