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''The Lemon Table'' is the second collection of short stories produced by Julian Barnes, and has the general theme of old age.〔(Age has not withered him: Frank Kermode salutes the bleak virtuosity of Julian Barnes's new collection of short stories, ''The Lemon Table'' ), Frank Kermode, ''The Guardian'', March 2004〕 It was first published in 2004 by Jonathan Cape. == Stories == * "A Short History of Hairdressing" (first published in ''The New Yorker'', 27 Sep 1997〔(Julian Barnes Website: Short Stories by Julian Barnes ) Retrieved 06 Feb 2014.〕) ::The story tells of three visits Gregory makes to a hairdressers, first as a child on his first visit without his mother, then as a young man having just broken up with his girlfriend, and finally in middle age having been married for 28 years.〔(Fiction: A Short History of Hairdressing : The New Yorker ) Retrieved 08 Feb 2014.〕 * "The Story of Mats Israelson" (first published in ''The New Yorker'', 24 Jul 2000〔) ::Tells of the unconsumated love affair in a small Swedish town between Anders Boden, a respected sawmill owner and Barbro Lindwall, the wife of a pharmacist new to the town.〔(Fiction: The Story of Mats Israelson : The New Yorker ) Retrieved 08 Feb 2014〕 * "The Things You Know" ::Describes the monthly get-together for breakfast of elderly widows Janice and Merrill, as they reminisce about their lives and husbands, but leaving much unsaid. * "Hygiene" (first published in ''The New Yorker'', 06 Sep 1999〔) ::An elderly man visits London for his annual Regimental dinner but also to visit prostitute Babs whom he has been visiting for over twenty years.〔(Fiction: Hygiene : The New Yorker ) Retrieved 08 Feb 2014.〕 * "The Revival" (first published in ''The New Yorker'', 05 Aug 1996〔) ::A speculative account of Turgenev's last love affair with an actress 35 years his junior, who plays Verochka, a character in the revival of "A Month in the Country" a play Turgenev wrote 30 years earlier. * "Vigilance" (first published in ''The Times Literary Supplement'', 04 Sep 1998〔) ::An aficionado of classical music complains about the increasing misbehaviour amongst his fellow concert-goers and of the increasingly dramatic steps his vigilance requires as he seeks to reduce the level of noise in the audience around him. * "Bark" ::Jeanne-Etiene Delacour, former obsessive gourmand and gambler turns into an ascetic in order to outlive fellow investors in a tontine, avidly studying their mortality. His regimen includes eating a slice of bark each day. * "Knowing French" ::A series of letters written to Julian Barnes from Sylvia Winstanley, a lonely 81-year-old struggling to remain alert in a stifling old-peoples home. * "Appetite" (first published in ''Areté Magazine'', Issue Two (Spring/Summer 2000)〔) ::As Vivian's husband descends into the advanced stages of dementia she finds that reading recipes from his favourite cookery books elicit the safest responses; other sources can generate more unexpected results. * "The Fruit Cage" (first published in ''The New Yorker'', 13 May 2002〔) ::The narrator struggles to come to terms with his 81-year-old father's affair with Elsie, a woman in her sixties, and the abandonment of his mother. He visits Elsie and is told another side to his parents apparently placid marriage. * "The Silence" (first published in ''The Independent'', 29 Dec 2001〔) ::The musings of an elderly Sibelius〔(Observer review: The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes ) Retrieved 13 deb 2014.〕 as he struggles to complete his Eighth Symphony. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Lemon Table」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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