Rewriting the Past as a Snapshot and Story. A Postmodernist Vision on the Concept of Truth and the Present in Julian Barnes’s Staring at the Sun

This essay analyses Julian Barnes’s novel, Staring at the Sun, and shows that the concepts of truth and the present are rewritten stories of the past. In a postmodernist manner, in Julian Barnes’s novel the present is a story to be completed by the readers based on their analysis and understanding o...

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Main Author: Catană Elisabeta Simona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-12-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2021-0007