Memories and Stories Redefining the Past and History in Julian Barnes’s the Sense of an Ending

Abstract

This essay analyses Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending and argues that the concepts of the past and history are redefined by the narrator’s subjective memories and stories in a postmodernist manner. This essay shows that the past is reread as a letter and as a diary fragment which ask for the readers’ various interpretations regarding their absolute truth.

Keywords

• history
• memories
• the past
• stories