Sense of an ending by julian barnes

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKBU. Name: Nimesh Dave Sem :4 Paper :13- The New Literature Topic: "History is....inadequacy of documentation"- explain with illustration from Tony' s memory. Academic year- 2015-16

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKBU.

Name: Nimesh DaveSem :4

Paper :13- The New LiteratureTopic: "History is....inadequacy of

documentation"- explain with illustration from Tony' s memory.

Academic year- 2015-16

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Introduction - "Sense of an Ending" by

Julian Barnes- 2011- Man Booker Prize - Main characters - Tony

Webster, Veronica Ford, Adrian Finn, Sarah Ford

Novel about person's memory of youthful days

(revisiting & recreating past)

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“The Sense of an Ending"

Tony Webster - NarratorRecalling... - school days -History classDiscussion on various defintions of History.

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Robson's suicide as an example

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So, we've two words….(1) Imperfect Memory:- -(example of freedom fighters) (2) Inadequate Documents:- -(Jesus kissed. Where?- missing in

documents)

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The gist of matter is that How far can we rely on memory??

Because...-Whatever incidents are narrated in part 1, that

same incidents are narrated again with 'DOCUMENTS' & this is quite opposite to what we know from the first part.

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Tony's Letter

In 1st part Tony has just narrated through memory that he had written letter to Adrian and Veronica.

But, in second part this letter comes as a shock, even to Tony that he had written such letter.

it was ( written proof- Document- letter- in his own handwriting- which even he cant deny)

Tony’s Letter

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So what?????

This leads us to doubt the earlier memory narrative.( Because he didn't mention ugliness of his own letter)

*Still now, we were thinking that Veronica had 'Damaged' Tony, But it was Tony who had cause Damage to Veronica & Adrian& then even he was living life as if nothing happen.

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History as unreliable...

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Conclusion

History is also like this.Individual' s personal history may be

different than the reality.one cant trust memory.enough documents are necessary.

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