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<p>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.</p>
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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.

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

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Memories and Stories Redefining the Past and History in Julian Barnes’s 

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

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 8 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0002

Keywords
history, memories, the past, stories

© 2020 Elisabeta Simona Catană, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 8 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0002

Keywordshistory, memories, the past, stories

© 2020 Elisabeta Simona Catană, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
history, memories, the past, stories