Finally, expanding on Tony Webster’s definition of subjective and objective time, I base my analysis on a combination of Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time and his concept of duration and Gérard Genette’s concepts of time in narratives. Focusing on the pervading unease due to the inaccessibility of the past, I examine the problems of remorse and guilt, and show that despite the irreversible linearity of time, repetitions in the narrative result in a circular structure that echoes the process of remembering. I discuss the unreliability of memory and the importance of corroboration with respect to the protagonist Tony Webster’s narrative identity. Relying on the heideggerian notion of humans as beings in time, I analyse the recurring time-related images of the river, blood, and the pulse in the novel, along with the central character’s meditations on the nature of time. In this paper, I analyse time as a central topic as well as a peculiar structural element in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending.
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