Here I upload my presentation on the paper New literature and it is submitted to Dr. Dilip Barad MKUB.

1. Presented by Mital Raval
Roll No: 18
Semester: 4
Paper Name:The New Literature
Enrolment no: 2069108420170026
Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad
Department of English MKBU.
Role of Memory inThe Sense of an Ending and
midnight’s Children.

2. Written by Julian Barnes in 2011.
It is eleventh novel by him
This book won Man Booker
prize in 2011.
Narrator of this novel isTony
Webster.
Written by Indian author
Salman Rushdie in 1981.
This book won the Man Booker
prize in 1981.
Narrator of this novel is Saleem
Sinai and set in historical context.
Introduction of the novels

3. Similarity in Writer
Contemporary post modern writers
Won the Man Booker prize for novel
Both are present their narrators with errata or
distorted memory.

4. Memory
Memory is defined as a recollection of past event or
event happened in the immediate past.
It is recorded in terms of narratives in the form of
dairies, documents, testimonies, autobiographic etc…
It is positive or negative.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about within us.
Oscar Wilde.
We can’t relied in it totally because it is the experience
of narrator and so may be it is constructed also.

5. “Memory is a mirror of Human Being”

6. Role of memory inThe sense of an Ending
and Midnight’s Children
Both the novels are narrated from the first person point of view.
The main protagonists from each novel narrate sequences from
their life.
Tony begins his narrative with school days moving gradually to
college life and life before and after marriage and finally the present
retirement life.
The novel Midnight’s children begins with Saleem’s description of
the time and day on which he was born.
He uses conversationalTone and his narration runs very fast as he
wants to record his life before he lost his memory completely.
Both narrator won’t record their memory before they forgets.

7. The narrators ofThe Sense of an Ending and Midnight's Children
experience the same where they try to recollect, record their
individual history but experience lapse in memory.
They are well aware of the shortcomings in their narration and
often remind the readers about the distortion of certain memories.
Both Narrator are suspectable.
Tony: “I remember, in no particular order”
Saleem: “I have immortalized my imperfections.” (page 529).
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8. Adrian Finn,
“History is the certainty produced at the point where the
imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of
documentation”
Thus, Julian Barnes registers the “imperfections” of both memory
and history which in turn transforms the narrative into an erratic
one.
Continue…

9. LikeTony, Saleem is well aware of the “imperfections” of his
memory and exclaims,
“I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are
inevitable in both methods.We must live, I'm afraid, with the
shadows of imperfections” (529).
Both the characters are well aware of the drawbacks in their
narration. However, in spite of its imperfections, they prefer their
own version of history or their own memory.
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10. Similarity in both the novel
Novel Narrated from first person point of view.
Post modern Novel, based on memory, Fragmented memory.
Novel deals with the different culture and history.
The main protagonist from each novel narrate sequences from their life or
rather then narrate their individual history.
Tony uses various expressions and statements through out the novel to remind
the readers that his narrative is entirely based on memories which he is no
longer sure of.
LikeTony Saleem openly confesses the error in his narrative. He often
emphasis and minds the readers about his imperative need to record his
memory immediately and in a speed beyond his control and hence his narration
would be unreliable and fallible.

11. Both the novel present narration based on
recollected memory and narrators who are well
aware of their faulty memory and who acknowledge
the unreliable and fallsable nature of their narrative.
Yet, they are capable of making the readers believe
their narrative up to certain level in the novel.
Conclusion

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Kumar, M palani. "Memory in Julian Barnes’ the Sense of an Ending
and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children." Journal of Humanities
and Social Science (n.d.): 5. English. 13 March 2018.
<http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/NCSCRCL/Volume-
2/21.pdf>.
Velari, Ranjan. Role of memory in The Sense of an Ending. 21 March
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