The Palimpsestic Time and Identity in Graham Swift’s Ever After

Abstract

The essay analyses Graham Swift’s Ever After and shows that the concepts of time and identity are fictional constructs which stand for a palimpsestic world presented as an eternal stage of past and present stories. Time and identity are revealed to us through symbols which stand for a palimpsestic world. They are reinvented and rewritten according to the narrator’s vision.

Keywords

• identity
• palimpsest
• past
• present
• time
• the world