The Noise of TimeJulian Barnes (JONATHAN CAPE, 192 pp, £14.99)Tablet bookshop price £13.50 • Tel 01420 592974 For some weeks in 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich would stand all night at the lift doors outside his fifth-floor apartment.  So convinced was he that he would be arrested that he’d chosen to be ready, fully dressed, with a small suitcase packed, so that his wife and baby would not have to see him taken from them.  For the first couple of nights, his three packets of Kazbeki cigarettes stayed in the suitcase, for he would need them for his interrogation.  But on the third night he reasoned that they would probably be confiscated anyway, so he stood and smoked.  Eventually, he decided to sleep on his bed, still dressed, with the suitcase beside