• Topic: The sense of an Ending: Title

• Paper no.• Sub. The New Literature• Name: Jadeja Kashmiraba

G.• Roll no. 10• Std. M.A.-2 Sem.-4• Submitted by: Dept of English M.K. Bhavnagar University• Year: 2013-2014

Introduction

About Novel

“The Stories we tell about ourselves serve

as consolatory structures, falsifying origins and ends to

grant order and meaning to the which

has none”.

-Frank Kermonde

Ambiguity of title

Title invites multiple interpretation

Purposeful ambiguity

Typical of Barne’s lucid but malty layered

Corrosive relationship with Veronica

Plot

1 Fine book2 SKILLFULLY PLOTTED3 Boldly conceived4 Questions of ageing and memory 5 Realistic Condition6 Peripetiea

“At some very low level we shall share certain fictions about time

and they testify to the continuity of what is called human nature”

BORROWED TITLE

“Studies in the Theory of Fiction”

Through thwarted love like in ‘Wuthering Heights’

Some Interesting Critical observations

“It’a book about history and how we recall events”

-Robin Leggett “Plot is not the main point, character and life are

Barne facus” - Whispering Gums “It’s a book about history and how we recall

events” - Anita Brookner

Main Object

Truths

Sense of the World

Crisis

No beginningAnd

No End

Narration

Thriller

Conclusion