‘The Noise of Time,’ by Julian Barnes - The New York Times
"It is brave of Julian Barnes to take on Shostakovich’s puzzle, and his
tragedy, in which so many people and factions have a stake. Barnes’s
short new novel, “The Noise of Time,” doesn’t just tell the composer’s
story; it presumes to channel him. Much of it is written in a Joycean
interior monologue, like at the beginning, where the composer is
standing by the elevator, waiting for Stalin’s secret police to come to
take him away:"
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