Dajeej Al Assr | Julian Barnes

It's 1937, and a man in his early thirties is waiting for an elevator next to his apartment door, waiting all night, thinking he'll be arrested at any moment and taken to the "big house", the house from which no one has ever got out.

This is it. The first of the three “dialogues” that took place between Dmitry and the authorities. Stalin listened to one of his pieces, did not like its performance, and condemned it to misery through the Official Gazette, and thus his life changed forever.

A masterpiece dealing with the struggle of the famous Russian musician Dmitriy Shostakovich And partisan authority in its attempts to regulate creativity and reshape it to suit the politician and his taste.
“The Noise of the Age” reflects deeply on the relationship between arts and power and how they can live together... Can they?...