02170cam a2200325 i 4500 296111426 TxAuBib 20160513120000.0 151120s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015043444 9781101947241 1101947241 eng rda TxAuBib rda Barnes, Julian. The noise of time [BOOK] / Julian Barnes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 201 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his children all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for years to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made torepresent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party, and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovich's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union. The result is both a stunning portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man and a brilliant meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society."-- Provided by publisher. 20160513. Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich 1906-1975 Fiction. Communism and society History 20th century Fiction. Nationalism and communism Fiction. Composers Soviet Union Fiction. Soviet Union Politics and government Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction.