The document provides biographical information about author Julian Barnes and summarizes the key points of his novel "The Sense of an Ending". It discusses how the novel's title references Frank Kermode's work on fiction and time. It also summarizes the plot, which follows a man reevaluating his memories from school, college, and a past relationship later in life. The document analyzes how the novel explores themes of ageing, memory, and connects to postmodernist ideas about narration and time.

1. Topic : The Title of ‘Sense of an Ending’
Name : Goswami Gayatri M
Roll no : 8
M. A. Sem - 4
Year : 2015
Paper no : 13 The New Literature
PG Enrolment no : 13101011
Email ID : gayatrigoswami19@gmail.com
Submitted to : Department of English Smt . SB . Gardi
Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction of the Julian Barns
Born : 19 January 1946 (age 69) Leicester ,
England
Full name : Julian Patrick Barns
Pan name : Dan Cavanaugh (crime fiction )
Edward Pyggye
Occupation : Writer
Nationality : English
Genre : Novel , short stories , Essays ,
Memory

3. The Sense of an Ending is grey grim- perfect novella .
 The novel title borrowed from Frank Kermode’s in 1967
 Frank Kermode's suggested a creative exploration of that
volume thesis .
 Kermode's the story we tall about ourselves serves as a
consolatory structure falsifying origins and ends to grant order
and meaning to that wich has non .
 Julian Barns rich the title the sense of an Ending 2008
meditation on morality , nothing to be frightened of , can be
read to mean that there’s either nothing or nothingness to fear
so here The sense of an Ending title similarly .
 The sense of an Ending title invite multiple interpretation.
 The novel title’s double entendre ,the demise of Tony’s
corrosive relationship with veronica is an ending that makes
sense , and what become of his philosophical buddy is an
ending Tony tries to makes sense .
Frank Kermode’s

4. “The stories we tell about ourselves serve as
consolatory structure, falsifying origins and ends to
the grant order and meaning to the which has
none”
-Frank Kermode

5.  According to :
 Philip Roth has been producing of late: The Dying
Animal, Exit Ghost , Everyman, Indignation, Nemesis.
 The title itself, a nod to Frank Kermode’s dense critical
work, published in 1967, on how fiction attempts to give
form to the flux that is time, is more deceptive than it
appears.
 The novel ‘ The sense of an Ending’ Title is connected with
the postmodern ideas and Narration time is
postmodernism .

6. The Sense of an Ending Title is connected with the postmodernist idea
 Postmodernism itself invokes innumerable definitions,
depending on the field and the scholar.
 Julian Barnes‘s work, ranging from novels with a
traditional narrative, to novels that defy convention, to
short stories and essays, experiment with themes and forms
which prove that he is, ultimately, worthy of study, and an
author to whom readers should look with greater
seriousness and academic interest.
 Barnes has often been categorized as a postmodernist,
and an exploration of what, exactly, that term contains is a
useful point to begin a discussion of how his texts function.
 Here we find further evidence of Barnes‘s departure from
postmodernism.

7.  Barnes, though his novels and stories in no way fulfill the traditional
conception of love stories culminating in marriage ,the so called -
marriage plot‖ of many realist novels is nothing if not humanizing.
 Barns novels may not contain satisfying conclusions, coherent
characters, or linear plots, but their entire focus remains firmly with
humanity.
 Barns novels ‘The Sense of an Ending 'are anchored by love and human
imagination, and this in itself puts him on the margins of postmodernism.

8. Memory of School days
 The novel sense of an Ending The first part begins in the 1960s.
 The novel begins with four intellectually arrogant school friends.
 We are told about two friends out of four.
 When they were in the last year of the school, a boy killed himself
after getting a girl pregnant.
 The four friends discussed the death philosophically.
Time Event Memory
Time Memory History

9.  The second part of the novel Tony recounts the next forty
years of his life until his sixties. Now Tony starts the narration of
the second part of the novel.
 second part of the novel is twice as long as the first part.
 The second part of the novel begins with the arrival of a lawyer’s
letter that informs Tony that Veronica’s mother has left him five
hundred pounds and two documents.
 Tony to re-established contact with Veronica and after a number of
meetings with her, to re-evaluate the story he has narrated in the first
part.
 Tony tries to remember his school days, college days and his breakup
with Veronica as he himself choose peaceful life

10. Plot
Fine Book
Skillfully
plotted
Boldly
conceived
Realistic
condition
Questions
of ageing
and
memory

11. “Myth is a neither a lie nor a
confection it is a inflection”
by Roland Barthes
“ Myth convert history in to nature”
by Rolando Barthes