The noise of time. Barnes J.

For the first time in Russian, the latest essay of the laureate of the Buker Prize Julian Barnes, the author of such international bestsellers as “England, England”, “Parrot of Flaubert”, “Love and so on”, “Hungry of the End” and many others. This time, the “unambiguously the most elegant stylist and the most unpredictable master of all conceivable literary forms” turns to the life of Dmitry Shostakovich, and in the anniversary year: in September 2016, the whole world will celebrate 110 years since the birth of the great Russian composer. However, the spelling of a fictional biography excites Barnes the least, and he marks much higher: having a license for any fantasy as an artist in love with Russian literature and perfectly owning context, he builds his construction on the unsteady soil of Soviet history, complete silence and half -truth...