书籍介绍
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
AI导读
核心看点
- 2011年布克奖得主，探讨记忆与时间的不可靠性。
- 中年男子托尼回顾青春，一封律师信揭开残酷真相。
- 叙事精妙，结尾反转震撼，揭示自我欺骗与逃避。
适合谁读
- 喜欢英国文学及布克奖获奖作品的读者。
- 对记忆、时间、历史建构感兴趣的思考者。
- 偏好心理分析、叙事诡计及哲学思辨的读者。
读前提醒
- 注意叙述者托尼的不可靠性，勿轻信其回忆。
- 书中引用大量哲学观点，需结合语境理解。
- 结尾极具冲击力，建议一口气读完以获完整体验。
读者共识
- 文笔优雅精准，叙述技巧一流，极具文学质感。
- 结尾反转令人震惊，但也因过于故弄玄虚受争议。
- 深刻揭示人性懦弱与自我安慰，引发强烈共鸣。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "人生已然开始，益处已然获得，损毁已然造成。 无言之所，唯余沉默。——维特根斯坦"
- "你知道我怕什么吗？年事已高住进医院，听着陌生的护士们叫着我的大名，安东尼，或是更糟糕，叫我的小名，托尼。托尼，让我把这个扎到你胳膊里去。托尼，再喝两口稀粥。托尼，你大便了吗？"
- "与此同时，我们既嗜读又好色，既笃信精英管理又崇尚无政府主义。在我们看来，一切政治体系和社会体制都是腐朽的，可是，除了追求混沌的享乐，我们一概拒绝考虑别的选项。"
- "而且，如果我们在谈论永不复得的强烈感情，我想，可能怀念的是难以忘怀的快乐，亦是难以忘却的痛楚。"
- "但是，时间啊……时间先安顿我们，继而又迷惑我们。我们以为自己是在慢慢成熟，而其实我们只是安然无恙而已。我们以为自己很有担当，其实我们十分懦弱。我们所谓的务实，充其量不过四逃避，绝非直面。时间啊……给我们足够的时间，我们论据充分的决定仿佛就会摇摇欲坠，我们的确信不疑就成了异想天开。"
- "我突然想到这或许便是年轻和年老的区别之一吧：年轻时，我们为自己憧憬不同的未来；年老时，我们为他人编撰不同的过去。"
- "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read Camus and Nitzsche. I had read George Orwell and Aldous Huxley; Colin had read Baudelaire and Dostoevsky.This is only a slight caricature."
- "二十几岁的时候，即使你对你的志向和目标很迷茫，很不确定，你却能强烈地感受到生活本身是什么，生活中的你是什么样子，会变成怎样。后来，这种不确定性越来越多，相互交叉，前后纠缠，虚假记忆日渐增加。想当初，你能记住你短暂人生的全部。后来，记忆变成了一件百衲衣。"
作者简介
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize--- Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Following an education at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient Philosophy.
He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20 October 2008.
用户评论
矫情，但还不至于让人讨厌。
我本來真的只打算找Kermode那本…巴恩斯以前沒讀過，不過這本中文版比原作評分高好多…不懂。布克的書沒讀過幾本，但好像一直沒找到點。略瑣碎，略solipsistic。 結尾瞎。
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."是句厉害的话。不过我还是觉得作者格局不够大，通俗点说就是聪明然而mean mean的。＃弃坑！学习！＃
audiobook读的超棒！原以为是一出闹剧，到最后发现是一场悲剧。彻彻底底的悲剧。关于历史的定义，不可信的记忆，所留下的记录，当事人的心态。你觉得自己很成熟，却只是选择避免受伤，把这称为生存本能，不去考虑年轻时一切的可能性。你淋花，交税，认真过日子，年迈七十，到底错过了什么。听开头的时候还以为又是那种无病呻吟的书，结果却写得这么好。
太囉嗦了。When we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
I’m genuinely stunned.
關於時間和記憶的探討是非常的有哲學性了，在歷史方面的探討也很深入，主要是把narrative這件事帶入到私人生活裡面，然後又帶出記憶的不可靠性，還有主觀和客觀的事實區別。
文笔还是很好的……
写得太聪明了，金句频出，故事倒没什么意思（虽然结尾我看了三遍才懂....）
Found myself stopping to think about why everyone does the things they do
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