讀《FT·金融時報》學英語：《時代的噪音》

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Alec Russell
Editor of FT Weekend
英國《金融時報》周末版編輯

In the aftermath of the 1989 revolution I interviewed many of the great musicians and actors in Romania—and had precious little sympathy for the compromises they had had to make under the tyrant Ceausescu.I stand corrected if not abashed after reading Julian Barnes' haunting novel on the agonies of Shostakovich under Stalin and his successors.The Noise of Time (Jonathan Cape/Knopf) takes on the millennia-old tension between art and power.
在1989年革命的余波中，我在羅馬尼亞采訪了許多偉大的音樂家和演員，不過對他們在暴君齊奧塞斯庫的統(tǒng)治下不得不妥協(xié)讓步，卻幾乎沒有感到什么同情。在讀了朱利安·巴恩斯震撼人心的小說之后，我承認自己錯了。這本小說講述了在斯大林和他的繼任者的統(tǒng)治下，肖斯塔科維奇的爆發(fā)。《時代的噪音》呈現(xiàn)了千年來藝術和權利之間的緊張博弈。

I recommended it to a friend who for years was one of the great reviewers at the Washington Post.His reply: “It's an extraordinary book.It's a book that makes me wish I were reviewing again.”
我把這本書推薦給一個朋友，他是這幾年來《華盛頓郵報》最好的評論員。他回復我說：“這是一本非凡的著作，讓人忍不住想要反復品讀。”