Julian Barnes Essays
The Connection between Art and History for Julian Barnes College
A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters
The connection between history and art is similar to the law of Causality in physics, otherwise known as the “cause and effect” law. As history progressed through multiple ages, fashions, and mentalities, so did artistic styles and tendencies. Art...
Taking Reader Responsibility for the Other in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending College
The Sense of an Ending
In Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending, the question of responsibility is one that deeply troubles Tony; it is one that drives him to investigate into the truth of past events, which comes up against his own alleged memory of them. Yet, at the...