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Today I am going to write about the thinking activity on
The Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes
Brief Biography of Julian Barnes :
Julian Barnes studied modern languages at Oxford before going on to work for the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1977, he began reviewing books for the New Statesman and New Review magazines, and later became a television critic. He published his first novel, Moreland, in 1980, but his first major critical success was the 1984 novel Flaubert’s Parrot. As Marshall, one of Tony’s classmates puts the idea of history in words viz. ‘Unrest...Great unrest!’, in the very initial part, the words serve their purpose at the end of the novel. it was not only difficult but also challenging to read Julian Barnes’s short novel ‘The Sense of an Ending’. Although the tale is easy and short, it’s confessional quality and the final revelation makes it a bulky text to digest. It begins with a punching start and ends with a fiendish thwack of restlessness.
It is a human tendency that we erase some memories which are unpleasant to our perceptions, views, or especially to our conscience, and the book thoroughly made me realize how we edit things in a peculiarly pleasing manner. However, the unreliability of the narrator was amazing because the history which he remembers is thoroughly different from the real thing. Hence, with the above-mentioned quote, Barnes establishes postmodernity. The novel is mainly surrounded by SELF- it presents an awkward side, rather than a ruthless side of self. This hundred and a fifty-page book is directly an answer to the question 'What is Literature and what is the role of literature in shaping human society, particularly a human being’.
b = s – v x + a1 or a2 + v + a1 x s = b.
This equation puzzled me a great deal. The uneasiness was absolutely difficult to bear. It was like a painful venture in the unknowable darkness. The b in the equation stands for baby, A2 = Antony Webster, V = Veronica, A1 = Adrin, S = Sarah Ford. This can be understood only when one reads the novel. It almost seemed to reflect how I and mostly all human beings tend to approach life with our own version (especially our own fallible version). The novel also teaches us how we erase some parts of memory to remember only good things. Barnes observes, I must mention the end of the novel is highly disturbing. It is disturbing not only in terms of the unreliability of the narrator but also in presenting the darker side of the self which is evidently present in all human beings. But as I approached this ending, I was in great unrest.
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