Not all terrific books about Russian topics have to be gigantic. In The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes sketches the life of Dmitri Shostakovich in fewer than 200 pages, drawing mainly on three periods in the composer’s life while using those to look back on other times. In the first, it is 1937, the height …
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Jan 26 2018
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Literature, Russia
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January 26, 2018
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