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Alexandra Mitrea, Julian Barnes and the Sense of History

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Magazine: 1 / 2013
Date: 2013
Alexandra MITREA
Universitatea „Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu, Facultatea de Litere şi Arte “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Letters and Arts

Abstract

Julian Barnes and the Sense of  History

The present article focuses on three novels which are highly relevant for understanding Julian Barnes’ view on history and historical knowledge. Flaubert’s Parrot, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters and The Sense of an Ending offer illustrative evidence of the writer’s approach to the construction of history which, though highly marked by postmodernism, departs from it in the keenness and passion with which it questions the world and the emphasis it places on ethical issues.

Keywords: postmodernism, history, story, discourse, fabulation, knowledge, historiographic metafiction, social responsibility

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