Bir Son Duygusu

Julian Barnes' last novel, A Sense of Ending, is a striking example of the theme of "examining life through remembrance", which has become an increasingly dominant element of Barnes' writing, as seen in several of the author's previous works. It starts with an expansion. Tony Webster, the main hero of the story, remembers some events he experienced forty years ago and arranges them in a random order in his mind. However, this act of remembering, which seems like an ordinary thing at first, will turn into a ruthless search for identity, in which the hero will constantly question his life and eventually come to extremely pessimistic conclusions about his own personality, when Tony Webster learns that a diary has been left to him.

Tony Webster, who is a retired historian and now lives his life alone without much involvement, has been married and divorced once in his past; He has an adult daughter named Susie, with whom he says he gets along well. One day, through an e-mail he receives from a lawyer, he is very surprised to learn that the mother of his girlfriend from forty years ago, Veronica Ford, left him a diary in her will. The real owner of the diary is Adrian Finn, with whom he went to the same school forty years ago, with whom he shared many experiences and ideas, but unfortunately in the end, he took away his girlfriend Veronica and then unexpectedly "removed from the scene". Adrian Finn, whose intelligence and in-depth understanding of life he says he greatly admires, despite the negativities between them, and who, yes, is no longer "on the stage"... Tony Webster asks Veronica for this diary, which he claims belongs to her, but Veronica refuses to fulfill his request. . They meet several times, and each time, he feels Veronica's sharp words explode in his face: "You just don't understand. You never did and you never will!"... What is it that Tony Webster can't understand? What does Tony have to do with life? Or is there "turmoil" everywhere, as he bitterly thinks at the end of his story? A Sense of End that bears its mark, a subtle, questioning novel of mastery written on the infinite variability of memory, that gigantic human passion called rebuilding the past, and above all, the meaning of life.



>Number of Pages: 160

Printing Year: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Deyrinti Yayınlari

First Edition Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 160< /p>

Language : Turkish