This document provides a summary of Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story" presented by students in the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. It includes background on the author, key facts about the novel, character introductions, a plot overview in 3 parts, themes, and learning outcomes. The summary focuses on the relationship between 19-year-old Paul Roberts and 48-year-old Susan Macleod set in 1960s England outside of London and the impacts on their lives.
The document provides information about Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story". It discusses key details like the title, author, characters, setting, and narrative technique. The novel tells the story of Paul Roberts' love affair with Susan Macleod in 1960s England. It explores themes of memory, love, loss and the passage of time through three parts that follow Paul's recollections and changing perspectives over decades. The document also provides reviews from critics praising Barnes' examination of the complexities and contradictions of romantic relationships.
This presentation deals with Amitav Ghosh's Cli-fi novel Gun Island. It was a group presentation presented in M.A. sem 4 in the Department of English, MKBU. It deals with crucial facts, about the text and author, characters, plot overview, themes, and Articles related to the novel.
Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author who was included in Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2010. He graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Bhagat has written nine novels and three non-fiction books that appeal to young, educated Indians through affordable prices, simple narratives about relatable topics, and savvy use of social media for marketing. His competitive advantage lies in understanding his target demographic and tailoring his products accordingly.
- The document summarizes a 120-year-old poem by Rabindranath Tagore called "Deeno Daan" that has gone viral on social media.
- The poem criticizes a king for building a lavish temple using donations while the poor suffered during a drought, implying the temple was for "royal pride" rather than God.
- The poem's message about spending on religious infrastructure over helping the poor resonates with current issues in India around the new Ram temple construction and coronavirus pandemic.
This document summarizes the key differences between the 7th and 8th editions of the MLA citation style. Some of the main changes include:
- The 8th edition uses one standard citation format for all source types, while the 7th has different formats.
- The 8th edition includes "containers" like websites or books that sources are contained within.
- Online handles or screen names can be used in place of authors' names in the 8th edition.
- The 8th edition includes volume and issue numbers for magazine and journal citations. It also includes URLs.
- The 8th edition omits the city of publication in book citations.
The document provides an overview and analysis of T.P. Kailasam's play "The Curse of Karna". It summarizes the plot of the five acts which retell the life of Karna from the Mahabharata. It then analyzes how Kailasam deconstructed myths around characters like Parshuram and Draupadi. It argues the play explores themes of caste conflict and how Karna, as a marginalized figure, was excluded from education and respect due to his low birth, making him a symbol of subaltern identity. It ultimately portrays Karna as the unsung hero of the Mahabharata who met a tragic fate despite his noble qualities through no fault
This document outlines the research methodology and process for writing a research paper. It covers 10 units: research and writing, plagiarism, mechanics of writing, and documentation. Unit 1 discusses selecting a topic, conducting research through library databases and references, compiling a bibliography, evaluating sources, taking notes, outlining, and writing drafts. The goal is to explore a topic, communicate information clearly through a well-written paper that follows academic writing standards.
Plagiarism is an important section in Research Methodology. With an advent of internet based technology, it has become easy for researchers to cut-copy-paste. Students / researchers, at times, are not aware that plagiarism can lead entire research project into troubled waters. This presentation will help students / researchers to know plagiarism and to avoid it.
The document provides information about Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story". It discusses key details like the title, author, characters, setting, and narrative technique. The novel tells the story of Paul Roberts' love affair with Susan Macleod in 1960s England. It explores themes of memory, love, loss and the passage of time through three parts that follow Paul's recollections and changing perspectives over decades. The document also provides reviews from critics praising Barnes' examination of the complexities and contradictions of romantic relationships.
This presentation deals with Amitav Ghosh's Cli-fi novel Gun Island. It was a group presentation presented in M.A. sem 4 in the Department of English, MKBU. It deals with crucial facts, about the text and author, characters, plot overview, themes, and Articles related to the novel.
Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author who was included in Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2010. He graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Bhagat has written nine novels and three non-fiction books that appeal to young, educated Indians through affordable prices, simple narratives about relatable topics, and savvy use of social media for marketing. His competitive advantage lies in understanding his target demographic and tailoring his products accordingly.
- The document summarizes a 120-year-old poem by Rabindranath Tagore called "Deeno Daan" that has gone viral on social media.
- The poem criticizes a king for building a lavish temple using donations while the poor suffered during a drought, implying the temple was for "royal pride" rather than God.
- The poem's message about spending on religious infrastructure over helping the poor resonates with current issues in India around the new Ram temple construction and coronavirus pandemic.
This document summarizes the key differences between the 7th and 8th editions of the MLA citation style. Some of the main changes include:
- The 8th edition uses one standard citation format for all source types, while the 7th has different formats.
- The 8th edition includes "containers" like websites or books that sources are contained within.
- Online handles or screen names can be used in place of authors' names in the 8th edition.
- The 8th edition includes volume and issue numbers for magazine and journal citations. It also includes URLs.
- The 8th edition omits the city of publication in book citations.
The document provides an overview and analysis of T.P. Kailasam's play "The Curse of Karna". It summarizes the plot of the five acts which retell the life of Karna from the Mahabharata. It then analyzes how Kailasam deconstructed myths around characters like Parshuram and Draupadi. It argues the play explores themes of caste conflict and how Karna, as a marginalized figure, was excluded from education and respect due to his low birth, making him a symbol of subaltern identity. It ultimately portrays Karna as the unsung hero of the Mahabharata who met a tragic fate despite his noble qualities through no fault
This document outlines the research methodology and process for writing a research paper. It covers 10 units: research and writing, plagiarism, mechanics of writing, and documentation. Unit 1 discusses selecting a topic, conducting research through library databases and references, compiling a bibliography, evaluating sources, taking notes, outlining, and writing drafts. The goal is to explore a topic, communicate information clearly through a well-written paper that follows academic writing standards.
Plagiarism is an important section in Research Methodology. With an advent of internet based technology, it has become easy for researchers to cut-copy-paste. Students / researchers, at times, are not aware that plagiarism can lead entire research project into troubled waters. This presentation will help students / researchers to know plagiarism and to avoid it.
I am sharing 'I am sharing 'Introduction _ History in Translation ' with you...HinabaSarvaiya
The document summarizes Tejaswini Niranjana's article "History in Translation" which examines her attempt to harness translation as a way to further decolonization. It discusses how Niranjana draws on Walter Benjamin's notion of translation to explore how translating and rewriting history can involve "citing" words from one context to another. The summary also mentions how Niranjana contrasts different approaches to translation as a decolonizing tool, and discusses some key concepts from her work like how translation can reinforce colonial representations of colonized peoples.
Translation and literary History An Indian View by Ganesh Devi (1).pptxEmisha Ravani
Ganesh Devi presents an Indian view of translation and literary history. In 3 sentences:
Western philosophy sees translation as exile from the original, but Indian metaphysics views translation differently. Translation is a merging of sign systems between languages and a way to bring one language closer to meanings shared with another. Indian literary traditions have long been traditions of translation, restatement, and revitalization rather than emphasis on strict originality.
Two Ways to Look at Life | The Only StoryDilip Barad
There were two ways of looking at life; or two extremes of viewpoint, anyway, with a continuum between them.
One proposed that every human action necessarily carried with it the obliteration of every other action which might have been performed instead; life therefore consisted of a succession of small and large choices, expressions of free will, so that the individual was like the captain of some paddle steamer chugging down the mighty Mississippi of life.
The other proposed that it was all inevitability, that pre-history ruled, that a human life was no more than a bump on a log which was itself being propelled down the mighty Mississippi, tugged and bullied, smacked and wheedled, by currents and eddies and hazards over which no control was possible.
This slide about Cultural Study of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
In this slide I wrote about the writer Shakespeare , introduction of the play Hamlet and use cultural study in the Hamlet play.
“ Shifting Centres and Emerging Margins: Translation and the Shaping of the Modernist Discourse in Indian Poetry”
in Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Region, Modernity by E.V. Ramakrishanan
Savege treatment of untouchables in meena kandasamy’s one eyed-Pina Gondaliya
This presentation summarizes Meena Kandasamy's poem "One-Eyed" which depicts the savage treatment of untouchables in India. It discusses how the poem tells the story of a young Dalit girl named Dhanam who drinks from a village water pot and is severely slapped by her teacher for breaking caste rules. The presentation analyzes how the poem conveys how even basic resources like water are divided along caste lines in India. It concludes that Kandasamy's work voices the plight of the Dalits and highlights the disparity between principles of equality and democracy in theory versus the treatment of marginalized communities in practice.
Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Po...Asari Bhavyang
Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline’ in Ali Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature’ 2011, 193- 207
Cultural studies in practice in study of HamletNikitaRathod20
This document contains information about a student submitting a paper on cultural studies. It then provides definitions and descriptions of cultural studies, discussing how it examines power dynamics and the construction of everyday life. It analyzes characters from Hamlet, particularly how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters who serve the corrupt king but become more central figures analyzed through a cultural studies lens.
This presentation was preapred as a part of term end presentations on respective papers in Masters of Art program. I made the presentation on Sri Aurobindo's poem 'To a Hero-Worshipper'. Sri Aurobindo was Indian philosopher, yogi, poet, nationalist and professor. This poem is not much discussed among his other works.
Comparative Literature and Translation StudiesBhumikaMahida
Comparative Literature and Translation Studies from paper - 3 importance of comparativ and translation studies , presentation by Pina Gondaliya and Bhumika Mahida
Narrative Pattern in Julian Barnes's 'The Only Story'Dilip Barad
Structured along Classical Line
Narrative Trope
Unreliable Narrator – Paul Roberts
Narration drifts from first person to second and third person
Authorial Comments - Philosophical Broodings
This presentation is a part of our group activity task given by Prof.Dr.Dilip Barad Sir on Comparative Literature and Translation Studies as Introductory task of the particular unit.
I, Divya Sheta, and Aamena Rangwala presented an article on 'Why Comparative Indian Literature?' by Sisir Kumar Das.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN INDIA: overview of its history by Subha Chakraborty...Jheel Barad
This presentation deals with an article by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta- Comparative Literature in India: an Overview of its History. It consists key- points from the article. It was presented as a classroom group task in Department of English, MKBU.
Theme of Love - Passion and Suffering - The Only Story - Julian BarnesDilip Barad
This document discusses themes of passion and suffering in Julian Barnes' novel The Only Story. It begins with background on the etymology of the word "passion", which comes from the Latin word for "to suffer". Several quotes from the novel are provided that illustrate how the main character Paul's passionate love affair with the older Susan turns to suffering for both of them. The document also discusses psychological interpretations of love from a Lacanian perspective, explaining how the separation between our organic being and our cultural identities as subjects through language gives rise to an unsatisfiable desire.
Three prose writers_ Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan and Nirad Chaudhuri.pptxNilay Rathod
This ppt was presented in term end presentations of semester 3 master of Arts. This presentation discuss three Indian prose writers Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan and Nirad Chaudhuri as disscused in the KRS Iyengar's 'Indian Writing in English'
1. Virginia Woolf was interested in depicting the complex inner thoughts and memories of characters through techniques like stream of consciousness and shifting between past and present.
2. In Mrs. Dalloway, she connects the characters of Clarissa and Septimus through their similar sensitivity and reliance on partners, though their stories do not directly intersect until Septimus' death is announced at Clarissa's party.
3. As utopian visions of the future declined, dystopian novels emerged depicting perfect but tyrannical or oppressive societies as a warning against the misuse of technology and unchecked modernity.
On Translating a Tamil Poem - A. K. Ramanujan.pptxNirav Amreliya
~ Translating poetry from one language to another is incredibly difficult due to differences in phonology, grammar, syntax, semantics, and cultural references between languages. A poem is defined by its unique language and cannot be perfectly reproduced in another.
~ When translating Tamil poetry to English, the translator faces many challenges due to differences in sound systems, metrical structures, syntax, and the cultural context embedded in the Tamil poems. Tamil poetry also relies on intertextual references that are difficult to convey.
~ While perfect translation is impossible, the translator can aim for "structural mimicry" by translating relationships, phrases, sequences, and patterns rather than individual words or lines. Focusing on universals, interiorized contexts
This document provides an overview and analysis of Buchi Emecheta's novel "The Joys of Motherhood". It discusses the author and her background, provides a summary of the plot and characters, and analyzes themes such as the ambiguous rewards of motherhood, the danger of resisting change, and cultural collision in the novel. The novel explores the life of a Nigerian woman named Nnu Ego and her struggles with traditional expectations of motherhood in a changing social and colonial context.
Angela Carter was an English novelist and short story writer known for her feminist magical realism works. She lived in various places throughout her life, including Yorkshire as a teenager where she battled anorexia, Tokyo for two years where she became radicalized, and spent 20 years living at universities. Carter married twice and had a prolific literary career where she adapted many works to radio and was known for her feminist magical realism stories that utilized intertextual webs and folklore influences.
This document provides a summary of Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story" presented by students in the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. It includes key details about the author, characters, plot, themes, and chapters. The summary focuses on Part 1 of the novel, providing an overview of the developing relationship between 19-year-old Paul Roberts and 48-year-old Susan Macleod set in 1960s England along with some of their interactions and the challenges they face. It also briefly mentions Part 2 continuing their story after they begin living together and some of the hardships Susan experiences. The document aims to familiarize readers with the essential information found in
This chapter describes a meeting between a man and a famous actress from his past. He waits at the railroad station where they first met decades ago. When she arrives, they find a place to sit and talk. They discuss their lives since they last saw each other, their relationships, and their feelings for each other in the past. The man asks if she loved him when they were young, and she replies cryptically. They share a tender moment before she leaves abruptly to return to her current life, leaving the man full of emotion reconnecting with his former love.
I am sharing 'I am sharing 'Introduction _ History in Translation ' with you...HinabaSarvaiya
The document summarizes Tejaswini Niranjana's article "History in Translation" which examines her attempt to harness translation as a way to further decolonization. It discusses how Niranjana draws on Walter Benjamin's notion of translation to explore how translating and rewriting history can involve "citing" words from one context to another. The summary also mentions how Niranjana contrasts different approaches to translation as a decolonizing tool, and discusses some key concepts from her work like how translation can reinforce colonial representations of colonized peoples.
Translation and literary History An Indian View by Ganesh Devi (1).pptxEmisha Ravani
Ganesh Devi presents an Indian view of translation and literary history. In 3 sentences:
Western philosophy sees translation as exile from the original, but Indian metaphysics views translation differently. Translation is a merging of sign systems between languages and a way to bring one language closer to meanings shared with another. Indian literary traditions have long been traditions of translation, restatement, and revitalization rather than emphasis on strict originality.
Two Ways to Look at Life | The Only StoryDilip Barad
There were two ways of looking at life; or two extremes of viewpoint, anyway, with a continuum between them.
One proposed that every human action necessarily carried with it the obliteration of every other action which might have been performed instead; life therefore consisted of a succession of small and large choices, expressions of free will, so that the individual was like the captain of some paddle steamer chugging down the mighty Mississippi of life.
The other proposed that it was all inevitability, that pre-history ruled, that a human life was no more than a bump on a log which was itself being propelled down the mighty Mississippi, tugged and bullied, smacked and wheedled, by currents and eddies and hazards over which no control was possible.
This slide about Cultural Study of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
In this slide I wrote about the writer Shakespeare , introduction of the play Hamlet and use cultural study in the Hamlet play.
“ Shifting Centres and Emerging Margins: Translation and the Shaping of the Modernist Discourse in Indian Poetry”
in Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Region, Modernity by E.V. Ramakrishanan
Savege treatment of untouchables in meena kandasamy’s one eyed-Pina Gondaliya
This presentation summarizes Meena Kandasamy's poem "One-Eyed" which depicts the savage treatment of untouchables in India. It discusses how the poem tells the story of a young Dalit girl named Dhanam who drinks from a village water pot and is severely slapped by her teacher for breaking caste rules. The presentation analyzes how the poem conveys how even basic resources like water are divided along caste lines in India. It concludes that Kandasamy's work voices the plight of the Dalits and highlights the disparity between principles of equality and democracy in theory versus the treatment of marginalized communities in practice.
Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Po...Asari Bhavyang
Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline’ in Ali Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature’ 2011, 193- 207
Cultural studies in practice in study of HamletNikitaRathod20
This document contains information about a student submitting a paper on cultural studies. It then provides definitions and descriptions of cultural studies, discussing how it examines power dynamics and the construction of everyday life. It analyzes characters from Hamlet, particularly how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters who serve the corrupt king but become more central figures analyzed through a cultural studies lens.
This presentation was preapred as a part of term end presentations on respective papers in Masters of Art program. I made the presentation on Sri Aurobindo's poem 'To a Hero-Worshipper'. Sri Aurobindo was Indian philosopher, yogi, poet, nationalist and professor. This poem is not much discussed among his other works.
Comparative Literature and Translation StudiesBhumikaMahida
Comparative Literature and Translation Studies from paper - 3 importance of comparativ and translation studies , presentation by Pina Gondaliya and Bhumika Mahida
Narrative Pattern in Julian Barnes's 'The Only Story'Dilip Barad
Structured along Classical Line
Narrative Trope
Unreliable Narrator – Paul Roberts
Narration drifts from first person to second and third person
Authorial Comments - Philosophical Broodings
This presentation is a part of our group activity task given by Prof.Dr.Dilip Barad Sir on Comparative Literature and Translation Studies as Introductory task of the particular unit.
I, Divya Sheta, and Aamena Rangwala presented an article on 'Why Comparative Indian Literature?' by Sisir Kumar Das.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN INDIA: overview of its history by Subha Chakraborty...Jheel Barad
This presentation deals with an article by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta- Comparative Literature in India: an Overview of its History. It consists key- points from the article. It was presented as a classroom group task in Department of English, MKBU.
Theme of Love - Passion and Suffering - The Only Story - Julian BarnesDilip Barad
This document discusses themes of passion and suffering in Julian Barnes' novel The Only Story. It begins with background on the etymology of the word "passion", which comes from the Latin word for "to suffer". Several quotes from the novel are provided that illustrate how the main character Paul's passionate love affair with the older Susan turns to suffering for both of them. The document also discusses psychological interpretations of love from a Lacanian perspective, explaining how the separation between our organic being and our cultural identities as subjects through language gives rise to an unsatisfiable desire.
Three prose writers_ Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan and Nirad Chaudhuri.pptxNilay Rathod
This ppt was presented in term end presentations of semester 3 master of Arts. This presentation discuss three Indian prose writers Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan and Nirad Chaudhuri as disscused in the KRS Iyengar's 'Indian Writing in English'
1. Virginia Woolf was interested in depicting the complex inner thoughts and memories of characters through techniques like stream of consciousness and shifting between past and present.
2. In Mrs. Dalloway, she connects the characters of Clarissa and Septimus through their similar sensitivity and reliance on partners, though their stories do not directly intersect until Septimus' death is announced at Clarissa's party.
3. As utopian visions of the future declined, dystopian novels emerged depicting perfect but tyrannical or oppressive societies as a warning against the misuse of technology and unchecked modernity.
On Translating a Tamil Poem - A. K. Ramanujan.pptxNirav Amreliya
~ Translating poetry from one language to another is incredibly difficult due to differences in phonology, grammar, syntax, semantics, and cultural references between languages. A poem is defined by its unique language and cannot be perfectly reproduced in another.
~ When translating Tamil poetry to English, the translator faces many challenges due to differences in sound systems, metrical structures, syntax, and the cultural context embedded in the Tamil poems. Tamil poetry also relies on intertextual references that are difficult to convey.
~ While perfect translation is impossible, the translator can aim for "structural mimicry" by translating relationships, phrases, sequences, and patterns rather than individual words or lines. Focusing on universals, interiorized contexts
This document provides an overview and analysis of Buchi Emecheta's novel "The Joys of Motherhood". It discusses the author and her background, provides a summary of the plot and characters, and analyzes themes such as the ambiguous rewards of motherhood, the danger of resisting change, and cultural collision in the novel. The novel explores the life of a Nigerian woman named Nnu Ego and her struggles with traditional expectations of motherhood in a changing social and colonial context.
Angela Carter was an English novelist and short story writer known for her feminist magical realism works. She lived in various places throughout her life, including Yorkshire as a teenager where she battled anorexia, Tokyo for two years where she became radicalized, and spent 20 years living at universities. Carter married twice and had a prolific literary career where she adapted many works to radio and was known for her feminist magical realism stories that utilized intertextual webs and folklore influences.
This document provides a summary of Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story" presented by students in the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. It includes key details about the author, characters, plot, themes, and chapters. The summary focuses on Part 1 of the novel, providing an overview of the developing relationship between 19-year-old Paul Roberts and 48-year-old Susan Macleod set in 1960s England along with some of their interactions and the challenges they face. It also briefly mentions Part 2 continuing their story after they begin living together and some of the hardships Susan experiences. The document aims to familiarize readers with the essential information found in
This chapter describes a meeting between a man and a famous actress from his past. He waits at the railroad station where they first met decades ago. When she arrives, they find a place to sit and talk. They discuss their lives since they last saw each other, their relationships, and their feelings for each other in the past. The man asks if she loved him when they were young, and she replies cryptically. They share a tender moment before she leaves abruptly to return to her current life, leaving the man full of emotion reconnecting with his former love.
This document provides advice on how to politely "unfriend" someone on Facebook without hurting their feelings. It references Jane Austen's Emma, noting how Emma politely preserves her manners while finding a way out of continually interacting with Mr. Elton, whose attention she finds annoying. The passage suggests following Emma's example by remaining polite while disengaging, as directly deleting the person could cause offense. Maintaining proper etiquette and politeness is important, as hurt feelings should be avoided.
The document contains several short stories that illustrate the power of small kind acts:
1) A boy reaches out to his troubled classmate, befriending him over many months and gaining a lifelong friendship.
2) During WWII, a young girl returns a soccer ball to British prisoners of war, demonstrating integrity.
3) A nursing student learns an important lesson when her professor emphasizes getting to know the names of everyone, including support staff.
This summary provides context and key details from the document in 3 sentences:
The document is the beginning of a chapter that introduces the main character, Amir, as he arrives in Prague for a study abroad program, hoping to find passion again after a disenchanting freshman year of college. At the airport, Amir meets Catherine and they begin joking and bantering, forming an early connection. The chapter sets the scene for Amir's semester in Prague as he arrives feeling unfulfilled by his studies so far but intrigued by his new surroundings and his interaction with Catherine.
The Only Story. 'Compare and contrast character of Joan and Susan' Nidhi Jethava
The document provides background information on Julian Barnes' novel "The Only Story" and compares the characters of Joan and Susan. It summarizes that Susan is the married woman who has an affair with 19-year-old Paul, while Joan is Susan's friend who never married and had a more difficult life, facing the death of her brother and learning difficult life lessons. While Susan tries to escape her problems through drinking, Joan maturely accepts life's difficulties and realizes nothing ultimately matters. The document analyzes how Joan is the more fascinating and well-developed character compared to Susan.
This document provides guidance on analyzing short stories by discussing various elements to examine, including significances both small and large, narrative structure, connections and causality, narrative voice, focality and perspective, characterization, and interrelations between elements. It uses examples from short stories by Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway to illustrate concepts like narrative voice, focality, and examining a story's elements together.
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He likely attended the local grammar school where he would have studied Latin and classics. Little is known about his life between 1585-1592, during which time he married Anne Hathaway and had three children. He eventually became an actor and playwright in London where he enjoyed great success, writing and performing in many of his famous plays. He died in 1616 at the age of 52 and is considered one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Plagiarism And Related Issues Of Plagiarism Research methodologyHinabaSarvaiya
The document defines plagiarism as presenting another person's ideas, information, or expressions as one's own without proper attribution. It discusses why plagiarism is considered wrong, such as intellectual theft and fraud. Related issues covered include reusing one's own past work without permission, collaborative work requiring proper attribution of contributions, and copyright infringement by distributing an entire copyrighted work without permission. The document advises avoiding plagiarism by properly citing all sources used through documentation in the prescribed style and using reference management tools.
Post-colonialism In Gabriel Okara's Poem Piano and DrumsAfrican LiteratureHinabaSarvaiya
- Gabriel Okara was a Nigerian poet and novelist born in 1921 who wrote about the effects of colonialism and cultural hybridity in Nigeria.
- In his poem "Piano and Drums", Okara depicts the contrast between traditional African culture symbolized by drums and modern European culture symbolized by the piano to show the interference of colonizers and loss of African identity.
- The poem explores the dichotomy between the primitive culture represented by the drums and the European culture represented by the piano to vividly portray the cultural conflict experienced by post-colonial Africans.
An Ecocritical Comparative Study_ The Human-Nature Relationship in Dhruv Bhat...HinabaSarvaiya
This research paper examines Dhruv Bhatt’s novels Akoopar and Samundrantike through an ecocritical lens, analyzing the representation of environmental themes and the human-nature relationship. Key characters like Dhanu, Sansai, Aima, and Bangali Baba exhibit strong connections to nature and seek to protect the environment. The novels portray how humans rely on nature for survival but also threaten it through overexploitation. Characters like Rava Aata, Noorbhai, and Saboor represent sustainable relationships between humans and nature. The titles and settings emphasize nature's resilience despite human impacts.
'Postmodern Absurdist Critique of Julian Barnes’s The Only Story' HinabaSarvaiya
This document summarizes a paper analyzing Julian Barnes' novel The Only Story through a postmodern absurdist lens. The paper discusses how Barnes depicts characters like Paul who face feelings of meaninglessness and isolation in contemporary society. It explores how these characters struggle with societal norms and experience absurdity as a result of living in a state of social disorder. The document provides context on Barnes as an author and defines key concepts like absurdism. It analyzes several passages from the novel to demonstrate how Barnes portrays the themes of absurdity and existential crises in a postmodern world.
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician born in 1632 who made significant contributions to Enlightenment thought. Some of his most notable works examined the social contract theory of government and the origins of human knowledge. He argued that people are born with a blank slate and form ideas based on experience. Locke also proposed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and that governments should protect these rights with limited power. His Two Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding were highly influential works during the Enlightenment period.
The document summarizes the work areas, libraries, and activities of the MKBU library committee. It outlines the committee's responsibilities to keep records of borrowed books and ensure books are returned on time. It describes the two libraries - the department library containing 800 English and Gujarati books, and the central university library which requires a library card. Upcoming activities are mentioned like library visits and various competitions around books.
Subaltern Perspective through Antoinette Character .pptxHinabaSarvaiya
The document discusses Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea and its portrayal of subaltern perspectives through the character of Antoinette. It discusses key concepts from postcolonial theory like subaltern studies and Gayatri Spivak's work. The novel exposes the cultural constructions that lead Antoinette and Rochester to represent racial others in certain ways, while also resisting assigning the subaltern a mere function to uphold eurocentric assumptions. It highlights the complex interplay between colonial strategies and subaltern practices in depicting black resistance in the Caribbean context.
Narrative techniques in Midnight's ChildrenHinabaSarvaiya
This document provides an analysis of the narrative techniques used in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. It discusses Rushdie's use of unnatural narratives, magic realism, and blending of Oriental and Western texts. The protagonist Saleem Sinai is described as an unnatural narrator due to his omniscience. Rushdie also combines numerous languages like English, Hindi, and Urdu. Overall, the document analyzes how Rushdie's innovative narrative style made Midnight's Children a complex and challenging work of postmodern literature.
The document discusses the concept of ecofeminism. It defines ecofeminism as a branch of feminism that examines the connections between women and nature. The document outlines two main schools of ecofeminist thought - radical ecofeminism and cultural ecofeminism. It also discusses key thinkers in ecofeminism such as Françoise d'Eaubonne, Vandana Shiva, and Bina Agarwal and their perspectives on the relationship between women and the environment. The document concludes that an analysis of women's interaction with nature must consider gender as well as other social factors like class, caste, and race.
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The Only Story by Julian Barnes
1. Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
The Only Story
Julian Barnes
Presented by:
MA Sem 4
Hinaba Sarvaiya(09)
Nirav Amreliya(18)
Bhavna Sosa(02)
Mayuri Pandya(14)
Nidhi Dave(16)
25-01-2023
2. Point to Ponder:
About the Author: Mayuri Pandya
Character Introduction: Hinaba Sarvaiya
Plot Overview: Nirav Amreliya
Themes of Novel: Bhavna Sosa
Article Reading: Mayuri Pandya
3. Key Facts
Published:1st February 2018
Author: Julian Barnes
Original Language: English
Chapterization: In three Part One,Two,Three
Genre:Memory Novel
Narrator: Paul Roberts
Setting: “stockbroker belt”outside London,1960
4. Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on
January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of
London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen
College, Oxford, from which he graduated in
modern languages (with honours) in 1968.
In 1977, Barnes began working as a reviewer and literary
editor for the New Statesman and the New Review. From
1979 to 1986 he worked as a television critic, first for the
New Statesman and then for the Observer.
5. Award
● Barnes has received several awards and honours for his writing,
including the 2011 Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending.
● Three additional novels were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
(Flaubert's Parrot 1984, England, England 1998, and Arthur & George
2005).
● Maugham Award (Metroland 1981),
● Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (FP 1985)
● Many other Award he was received
Official Website of Author
9. Minor Characters:
Paul’s Mother
Jack (Father of Gordon)
Mrs. Dayer (Maid of Susan’s home)
Christine & Virginia
Cindy
Uncle Humph & Aunt Florence
Maurice (Reynolds News)
Dr.Kenny(Barnes #)
10. Learning Outcome:
● Pursuing one’s own passion can lead to a more fulfilling
and successful life.
● Being helpful and supportive to those in need, whether
they are relatives or strangers, during difficult times can
improve the well-being.
● Being aware of basic safely guidelines (Low) can help
protect the lives of the elderly.
● Believe in the historical records in written form, allows for
a better understanding of the past and its impact on the
present.
12. Part One :
- Page Number 3 to 83
- First Person Narration
- "Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?
That is, I think, finally, the only real question."
- "The question then is: do all these retellings bring you closer to the truth of what happened, or
move you further away? I'm not sure."
- "The time: more than fifty years ago. The place: about fifteen miles south of London...So if you
don't mind, meteorology will play no part in my story."
- "I went along, and was invited to 'play in'. This was a test which not just my tennis game but my
general deportment and social suitability would be quietly examined in a decorous English way.
13. - "She looked at me sideways....'But what about your reputation? 'My reputation?' I answered. 'I
don't think I've git one.' 'Oh dear. We'll have to get you one then. Every young man should have a
reputation.'"
- "I drove Mrs Macleod to her house in Duckers Lane."
- "As I said, I drove Mrs Macleod home, and nothing happened. And again; and again. Except that
this depends on what you mean by ‘nothing’. Not a touch, not a kiss, not a word, let alone a scheme
or a plan."
-”Sometimes I forget about other people. About them existing. People I’ve never met, I mean. I’m
sorry, Casey, maybe I should have … I mean, it isn’t as if… oh dear.’ ‘Nonsense,’ I say firmly. ‘You
said a young man like me should have a reputation. It seems I’ve now got a reputation for operating
a taxi service. That’ll do me for the summer.’ She remains downcast. Then says quietly, ‘Oh Casey,
don’t give up on me just yet.’But why would I, when I was falling smack into love?"
-"So what words might you reach for, nowadays, to describe a relationship between a nineteen-year-
old boy, or nearly-man, and a forty-eight-year-old woman? Perhaps those tabloid terms ‘cougar’ and
‘toy boy’? But such words weren’t around then, even if people behaved like that in advance of their
naming."
14. -"For instance, I remember lying in bed one night, being kept awake by one of those
stomach-slapping erections which, when you are young, you carelessly – or carefreely
– imagine will last you the rest of your life. But this one was different....In my days of
adolescent rage and insolence, I would ask myself: What are the old for, if not to envy
the young? That seemed to me their principal and final purpose before extinction."
-"I lean across and kiss her, in front of whatever interested pedestrians Wimpole Street
contains."
-"I was going to say girlishness; and perhaps that’s more what I mean. Yes, she is
older; yes, she knows more about the world. But in terms of – what shall I call it? the
age of her spirit, perhaps – we aren’t that far apart."
-"You aren’t suggesting I go into politics?’ I am incredulous. I despise politicians, who all
strike me as self-important creeps and smoothies. Not that I’ve ever met a politician, of
course.
15. ‘ -It’s exactly because people like you don’t go into politics that we’re in the
mess we are,’ Susan insists."
- "My parents enjoyed television sit-coms, but were made uneasy by satire."
- "The first time we were together – sexually, I mean – we each told the necessary
lies, then drove across to the middle of Hampshire and found two rooms in a hotel."
- "‘Isn’t it strange?’ she muses. ‘My mother died of cancer when I was ten and I only
ever think of her when I’m cutting my toenails.’"
- "I leave a pause; she fills it. ‘I had an uncle. Uncle Humph. For Humphrey. I used
to go and stay with him and Aunt Florence. After my mother died, so I would have
been eleven, twelve....And just as I would be getting off to sleep,there was a sudden
weight on the side of the bed and it would be Uncle Humph,stinking of brandy and
cigars and saying he wanted a goodnight kiss too. And then one time he said, “Do
you know what a ‘party kiss’ is?” and before I could reply he rammed his tongue into
my mouth and thrashed it around like a live fish. I wish I’d bitten it off. Every summer
he did it, till I was about sixteen."
16. - “But I’m remembering the past, not reconstructing it....I’m not trying to spin you a story; I’m trying to
tell you the truth."
- "Everyone in the Village, every grown-up – or rather, every middle-aged person – seemed to do
crosswords: my parents, their friends, Joan, Gordon Macleod.
Everyone apart from Susan. They did either The Times or the Telegraph; though Joan had those
books of hers to fall back on while waiting for the next newspaper. I regarded this traditional British
activity with some snootiness."
- "'Does Mrs Macleod do the crossword?’ I asked, already knowing the answer.Two could play at
this game, I thought.
‘The Puzzle,’ he replied with some archness, ‘is not really a female domain.’
‘My mum does the crossword with my dad. Joan does the crossword.’
He lowered his chin and looked at me over his spectacles.
‘Then let us posit, perhaps, that the Puzzle is not the domain of the womanly
woman. What do you say to that?’
17. - "I’ve been educated at school and university, and yet, in real terms, I know nothing. Susan
barely went to school,but she knows so much more. I’ve got the book-learning, she’s got the
life-
learning."
- "But anyway: Martha and Clara. Miss G and Miss NS. Miss Grumpy and Miss Not So
(Grumpy). Martha was like her mother physically, tall and pretty, but with something of her
father’s querulous temperament. Clara was plump and round, but entirely more equable. Miss
Grumpy disapproved of me; Miss Not So was friendly, even interested."
- "If I was uneasy with girls generally, I was the more so with ones who were a bit older than
me, let alone ones whose mother I was in love with."
- "I never reflected on our age difference. Age felt as irrelevant as money. Susan never
seemed a member of my parents’ generation – ‘played-out’ or not. She never pulled any sort
of rank on me, never said, ‘Ah, when you’re a bit older, you’ll understand’ and stuff like that. It
was only my parents who harped on about my immaturity."
18. "She was almost exactly the same age as your mother, and you went to bed with her. So?"
- "It’s true that I wanted to sleep with Susan – and did so many times – and for a number of
years thought of killing Gordon Macleod, but that is another part of the story."
- "Not that pre-history doesn’t matter. Indeed, I think pre-history is central to all relationships."
- "There was no exact Moment of Leaving, neither a surreptitious midnight skedaddle, nor
some formal departure with luggage and waving handkerchiefs.(Who would have waved?) It
was a long-drawn-out detaching, so that the moment of rupture was never clearly marked.
- "Which didn’t stop me trying to mark it, with a brief letter to my parents:
Dear Mum and Dad,I am moving up to London. I shall be living with Mrs Macleod. I shall send
you an address as and when.
19. Yours, Paul
That seemed to cover it. I thought the ‘as and when’ sounded properly
grown-up. Well, so I was. Twenty-one. And ready to fully indulge, fully
express, fully live my life. ‘I’m alive! I’m living!’
We were together – under the same roof, that is – for ten or more years.
Afterwards, I continued to see her regularly. In later years, less often.
When she died, a few years ago,...And this is how I would remember it
all, if I could. But I can’t."
20. Part Two :
- Page Number 87 to 158
- First Person Narration from the Page Number 87 to 103
- Second Person Narration from the Page Number 104 to 158
- "Susan’s running-away fund contained enough to buy a small house in Henry Road, SE15."
- "I painted my study a sombre dark green, after Barney told me that the labour wards of
hospitals were that colour, to calm expectant mothers. I hoped it might have the same effect on
my own laborious hours."
- "But as far as I understood my life at this time, I required the opposite equation. Work would
be something I jogged along with; love would be my life."
21. - "‘Who was that?’ I asked as she passed my door. She looked in to see me.
‘Missionaries,’ she replied. ‘God damn and blast them, missionaries. I let them get it all
off their chests and then sent them on their way. Better to waste their puff on me than
someone they might convert.’
‘Not actual missionaries?’
‘It’s a general term. Actual missionaries are the worst, of course.’"
- "But a few weeks later we received a visit from a man called Maurice."
- "Susan was in her hostess mode, which involved tamping down some of the things I
most loved her for: her irreverence, her free-spirited laughter at the world."
- "At the Macleod house, unlike my own, there was a main staircase near the front
door, and a narrower one near the kitchen, presumably for those mob-capped servants
now replaced by machines."
22. - "Have you ever seen an electric log-splitter in action? They’re very impressive. You cut the log to a
certain length, lay it on the bed of the machine, press the button with your foot, and the log is pushed
on to a blade shaped like an axe-head. Whereupon the log splits pure and straight down the grain.
That’s the point I’m trying to make. Life is a cross section, memory is a split down the grain, and
memory follows it all the way to the end."
- "Isn’t growing up a necessary process of losing one’s innocence? Maybe, maybe not. But the
trouble with life is, you rarely know when that loss is going to happen, do you? And how it will be,
afterwards."
- "‘Joan,’ said the very rude voice of Joan. ‘It’s Susan. Get over there. She wants you, not me. You,
now.’ And she put the phone down."
- "‘Whatever you say. But you’ll need to tell me roughly where we’re going.’
‘Head for Selfridges.’
‘Are we in a hurry?’ I allowed myself that question.
23. ‘Just drive safely, Paul, just drive safely.’We got to near Selfridges and she directed me down
Wigmore Street, then left up one of those streets where private doctors practise."
- "A terrible realization came upon me. That the system had failed, that she’d found herself
pregnant, and was even now dealing with the consequences. The Abortion Law was still going
through Parliament, but everyone knew there were doctors – and not just at the backstreet end –
who would perform ‘procedures’ more or less on demand."
- "The notion of being a father while still a student struck me as terrifying and crazy. But it also
struck me as, well, kind of heroic. Subversive yet honourable,annoying yet life-affirming: noble. I
didn’t think it would get me into the Guinness Book of Records – no doubt there were twelve-
year-olds hard at work getting their grannies’ best friends pregnant, but it would certainly make
me exceptional. And irritate the hell out of the Village."
- "Over the next days, she told me bit by bit what had happened. She had been sitting up late,
listening to the gramophone. Macleod had gone to bed an hour previously. She kept playing over
and over again the slow movement of Prokofiev’s third piano concerto, which we’d heard a few
days before at the Festival Hall. Then she put the record back in its sleeve and went upstairs.
She was just reaching for the handle of her bedroom door when her hair was seized from behind,
and with the words, ‘How’s your fucking musical education coming along?’, her husband
smashed her face into the closed door. Then he had gone back to bed."
24. - "as I realized I would never again be able to tap her ‘rabbit teeth’, long discarded in some
Wimpole Street waste bin; as I understood that I now had greater responsibilities than before;"
- "One thing I never swerved from was the certainty that Gordon Macleod’s behaviour was a crime
of absolute liability. And his responsibility was also absolute. A man hits a woman; a husband hits
a wife; a drunkard hits a sober spouse. There was no defence, and no possible mitigation."
- Starts Second Person Narration :
- "You are an absolutist for love, and therefore an absolutist against marriage."
- "You have given the matter much thought, and come up with many fanciful comparisons.
Marriage is a dog kennel in which complacency lives and is never chained up. Marriage is a
jewellery box which, by some mysterious opposite of alchemy, turns gold, silver and diamonds
back into base metal, paste and quartz. Marriage is a disused boathouse containing an old, two-
person canoe, no longer water-worthy, with holes in the bottom and one missing paddle. Marriage
is…oh, you have dozens of such comparisons to hand."
25. - "You approve. This will be the start, the making, of the new Susan. You try some gentle
advice."
- "You realize that, even if she is the free spirit you imagined her to be, she is also a damaged
free spirit. You understand that there is a question of shame at the bottom of it. Personal shame;
and social shame. She may not mind being thrown out of the tennis club for being a Scarlet
Woman, but she cannot admit to the true nature of her marriage."
- "You know that sometimes, after checking on the house she owns half of, she goes to visit
Joan. This is a good idea, even if on her return her hair smells of cigarette smoke. Once, you
catch sherry on her breath."
- "Around this time, one of the lodgers moved out, and Eric, having broken up with his
(moralistic, marriage-demanding) girlfriend, took over the free room on the top floor. This brought
a new dynamic to the house, perhaps even a better one. Eric thoroughly approved of our
relationship, and would be able to keep an eye on Susan when I couldn’t."
26. - "Dr Kenny is a fussy, inquisitive middle-aged man, but the right sort of GP one who believes
that house calls provide useful background when it comes to diagnosis. You take him upstairs to
Susan’s bedroom; her bruises are coming into full colour."
- "You realize two things. First, that you lie automatically to protect Susan even if the truth might
have helped her more. You also begin to see how your relationship, or rather, your cohabitation,
might appear to an outsider."
- "You know already that there is good sex and bad sex. Naturally, you prefer good sex to bad
sex. But also, being young, you think that even so, all things considered, taking the rough with
the smooth, bad sex is better than no sex at all. And sometimes better than masturbation; though
sometimes not.
But if you think these are the only categories of sex that exist, you find you are mistaken.
Because there is a category which you had not known to exist, something which isn’t, as you
might have guessed had you heard about it before, merely a subcategory of bad sex; and that is
sad sex. Sad sex is the saddest sex of all."
27. - "Good sex is better than bad sex. Bad sex is better than no sex, except when
no sex is better than bad sex. Self-sex is better than no sex, except when no sex
is better than self-sex. Sad sex is always far worse than good sex, bad sex, self-
sex and no sex. Sad sex is the saddest sex of all."
- "Yet here you are, in a hospital waiting area, surrounded by mad people, in love
with a woman who is being characterized as potentially mad."
- "When desire returns, you order up another prostitute. Later, you have a
Lebanese dinner. You watch television. You lie on your bed, deliberately not
thinking about Susan or anything to do with her. You do not care how anyone
might judge you if they could see where you are and what you are doing."
28. Part Three :
- Page Number 161 to 212
- Third Person Narration
- "He sometimes asked himself a question about life. Which are truer, the happy memories, or
the unhappy ones? He decided, eventually, that the question was unanswerable."
- "He had kept a little notebook for decades now. In it he wrote down what people said about
love. Great novelists, television sages, self-help gurus, people he met in his years of travelling.
He assembled the evidence. And then, every couple of years or so, he went through and
crossed out all the quotations he no longer believed to be true. Usually, this left him with only
two or three temporary truths. Temporary, because the next time round, he would probably
cross those out as well, leaving a different two or three now standing."
29. - "For instance, he thought he probably wouldn’t have sex again before he died.Probably.
Possibly. Unless. But on balance, he thought not. Sex involved two people. Two persons,
first person and second person: you and I, you and me. But nowadays, the raucousness
of the first person within him was stilled. It was as if he viewed, and lived, his life in the
third person. Which allowed him to assess it more accurately, he believed."
- "One entry in his notebook was, of course: ‘It is better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all.’"
- "Susan’s mind has slipped a little more each time you see her. Short-term memory
disappeared a while ago, and long-term memory is a shifting, blurry palimpsest from which
clear but unconnected phrases will occasionally be picked out by her fading brain. What
often rises to the surface are songs and catchphrases from decades previously.
‘High o’er the fence leaps Sunny Jim,
Force is the food that raises him.’
30. - "She has long ago ceased to drink; indeed, she has forgotten that she was ever a drinker.
She seems to know that you are, or were, something in her life, but not that she once loved
you, and you loved her in return. Her brain is ragged, but her mood is strangely stable. The
panic and pandemonium have drained out of her. She is alarmed by neither your arrival nor
your departure. Her manner is satirical at times, disapproving at others, but always a little
superior, as if you aren’t a person of much consequence. You find all this agonising, and try to
resist the temptation to believe that you deserve what you are getting."
- "Once – and naturally in front of the nurse – she dredges up a football song
which can only have come from you:
‘If I had the wings of a sparrow,
If I had the arse of a crow,
I’d fly over Tottenham tomorrow,
And shit on the bastards below.’
But the nurse has, of course, heard far worse in her years of caring for the elderly and
demented, so she merely cocks an eyebrow at you and asks,
‘Chelsea supporter?’"
31. - "None of this happened. I looked at her profile, and thought
back to some moments from my own private cinema. Susan in
her green-piped tennis dress,feeding her racket into its press;
Susan smiling on an empty beach; Susan crashing the gears of
the Austin and laughing. But after a few minutes of this,my mind
began to wander. I couldn’t keep it on love and loss, on fun and
grief."
- "But the rest of my life, such as it was, and subsequently would
be, was calling me back. So I stood up and looked at Susan one
last time; no tear came to my eye. On my way out I stopped at
reception and asked where the nearest petrol station might be.
The man was very helpful."
32. Learning Outcome:
- The Notion of Afterlife and the Myth that Universe Repeats Itself, This Signifies the Binary for
Multiple People :
"‘You’re not,’ I insist. ‘And with a bit of luck the old bastard will be in a very
hot place. If there’s any justice.’
‘There isn’t,’ she replies. ‘There isn’t any justice, here or anywhere else. And the afterlife would
just be an enormous bridge party with Uncle Humph bidding six no trumps and winning every
hand and claiming a party kiss as his reward.’" (pg. 31, Part One)
- The Breaking of Classical Myth of Deeming Upper Class as Civilized stratum whereas Lower
Class as Uncivilized One :
"It was, I suppose, ignorance and snobbery on my part which had hitherto made me assume that
domestic violence was confined to the lower classes, where things were done differently, where –
as I understood from my reading rather than from a close familiarity with backstreet life – women
would rather their husbands hit them than be unfaithful to them. If he beats you, it shows he loves
you, and all that crap. The idea of violence being inflicted by husbands with a Cambridge degree
seemed to me incomprehensible." (pg. 103, Part Two)
33. - The Selfishness of One Lover Having Fear that If One Tells the Truth to the Beloved,
Beloved Might Leave the One, Thus One Condones the Facts - Be They Wrong and
Surreptitious - of One's Beloved :
"You don’t say anything except, ‘We have to leave by two.’ You decide to let
her go on destroying her life." (pg. 140, Part Two)
- The Art of Interweaving Milieu in Form of Story within Story :
"And there is also the Malta story, which she has told you more than once....she would
explain, it’s terribly Catholic out there...Or maybe there’s a woman who has two children
and desperately wants a third but it isn’t happening. And in such cases, the priest will
come round and prop his bicycle outside the front door, so everyone – especially the
husband – knows not to interfere until the bicycle has gone. And when, nine months later
– though of course it may take several goes – the family is blessed, that blessing is
known as ‘the priest’s child’, and thought of as a gift from God. And sometimes there is
more than one priest’s child in the family. Can you imagine that, Paul? Don’t you think it’s
barbaric?" (pg. 125, Part Two)
34. - The Summing of One's Deeds at the End of the Day in Life
Which Most Often Leaves Everyone in Abyss of Remorse and
Few Streaks of Happy Memories :
"What he didn’t – or couldn’t – tell Joan was his terrifying
discovery that love, by some ruthless, almost chemical process,
could resolve itself into pity and anger. The anger wasn’t at
Susan, but at whatever it was that had obliterated her. But even
so, anger. And anger in a man caused him disgust. So now,
along with pity and anger, he had self-disgust to deal with as
well. And this was part of his shame. (pg. 177, Part Three)
36. Love, Loss and Self- delusion :
We start off in the first-person narrative of the 19-year-old Paul, who
meets and falls in love with 48-year-old Susan at a tennis club. Paul
lives in “the Village”, a stockbroker-belt enclave “fifteen miles south
of London”.
The Only Story explores themes of first love, loss, and self-delusion.
It also paints a portrait of a generation-Barnes’s own-whose ideals
have floundered over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-
first centuries. The novel was generally well received by critics, who
found it a “sombre but well-conceived character study”(“The Only
Story Summary”)
37. Theme of Memory :
Part Three is a fictional construction of the narrator’s past life by
the help of his memory. Paul in part three reconstructs his memory
through his imagination. This enables him to transfigure his
memories into what he desired to have. He experiences a different
kind of love which is based on shared singularity. He finally
accepts the differences between himself and Susan. Thus, he tries
to remember Susan’s happy time: “Susan happy, Susan optimistic
…”
38. Pain and Fulfillment :
In the story’s examination of the various contradictions and
challenges inherent within the concept of love, the narrative seeks
to utilise Paul and Susan’s relationship as demonstrating how
fulfillment and suffering are not only inevitable in a romantic
relationship, but are also often simultaneous phenomena. The
narrative first introduces this idea by opening the novel as follows:
“Would you rather love the more,
and suffer the more; or love the less,
and suffer the less?” (3).(Barnes)
39. In this way, the narrative immediately draws a thematic connection
between fulfilment and suffering that underlies the story of Susan
and Paul’s relationship. At first, the narrative highlights the passion
and complete fulfilment that Paul experiences in the early stages of
the relationship:
“I was nineteen, and I knew that love was incorruptible,
proof against time and tarnish” (61).
40. Theme of Marriage :
You are an absolutist for love, and therefore an absolung against
marriage. You have given the matter much thought, and come up
with many fanciful comparisons. Marriage is a dog kennel in which
complacency lives and is never chained up.
Marriage is a jewellery box which, by some mysterious opposite of
alchemy, turns gold, silver and diamonds back into base metal,
paste and quartz. Marriage is a disused boathouse containing an
old, two-person canoe, no longer water-worthy, with holes in the
bottom and one missing paddle. Marriage is... oh, you have dozens
of such comparisons to hand.
41. Gradually, you realised that the marriage of Gordon and Susan
Macleod was actually in far worse shape than any marriage among
your parents' circle, and you became all the more absolutist (p.104-
105).
42. Learning Outcome :
● Passion to do achieve anything
● No one trusted too soon
● Explicate habit of taking note
44. The reader had to intuit what happened. It must be related to that, that I thought I
would write about it more overtly this time.”
The novel is experience of love itself and, among other things, how difficult it is to
analyze love, especially the first time you feel it. “It’s a bit like putting in a new
kitchen,” he says. “You never get it right the first time. You always have that bit of
slate you shouldn’t have, or the taps are in the wrong place. And then you
redesign and have another kitchen, and there are different mistakes
made.”(“Julian Barnes on ‘The Only Story’”)
45. The Only Story to which Barnes alludes is, of course, the story of love. And for good or ill,
Everybody has such a story to tell. In the end, it reveals itself as the thing that.Most importantly
that has had the greatest impact, changing or transforming the course of a life.
Written many years later, it is Paul’s attempt to convey his own ‘only’ story, with Susan. Lest
he reader has high expectations of atmospheric scene-setting, he cautions: “I’m remembering
the past, not reconstructing it... I’m not trying to spin you a story; I’m trying to tell you the truth.
It is the most explicit reference to the realism this novel embraces, stripped of sentimentality and
most self-pity, at times uncomfortable yet never self-indulgently plain.
(Goring)
46. The Only Story comes from its psychological acuity, especially
about how we remember. In Paul’s narrative, experiences
deconstruct themselves and personalities decay in a
devastatingly convincing way.
It all seems terribly sad, and horribly true: a definitive account
of how romantic love becomes trapped in its own frame and
empties itself of color and meaning.
(Clanchy)
47. In The Only Story , Julian Barnes, arguably one of fiction’s most elegiac cartographers of the
heart and of the human condition, returns to his ‘first love’, the Metroland of his debut novel,
with a haunting narrative of an audacious love and a distant memory of it mapped over
decades.Barnes’s narrative in the first one-third of the novel sways to the urgent, feverish I-
me-myself cadence of Paul and Susan’s relationship.
Barnes, working with the clinical precision of a cardiac surgeon, lays open the affairs of their
heart with a wrenching narrative that, even when it doesn’t quite validate the redemptive
power of love, is curiously therapeutic. (Vembu)
48. Julian Barnes’s novel The Only Story (2018) can be read as a monograph
on the complications of love. By focalising the narrative situations and
events through the consistently transforming perspective of a failed lover,
Barnes shows how digging into the past events through the awakening
lens of memory can lead to previously censored self-realizations.
(NAYEBPOUR and VARGHAIYAN #)
49. Learning Outcome
How to tell Story even it is Love story
Human and his memory play the vital role
Age is doesn’t matter in love
Sport in literature
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