Romanian Journal of English Studies (Nov 2022)

England as a Palimpsest in Julian Barnes’s England, England. Turning History Into a Story

  • Catană Elisabeta Simona

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 50 – 57

Abstract

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This article analyses Julian Barnes’s England, England and shows that it recreates England as a palimpsest, presenting to us a parody of the past and circulating an ironic story of a possible version of this country with a rewritten history. Julian Barnes redefines history and the role of the historian in a novel which illustrates the idea that history is a story.

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