Romanian Journal of English Studies (Dec 2020)

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

  • Catană Elisabeta Simona

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 1
pp. 8 – 15

Abstract

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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.

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