2021-02-14 at 16:10:42
Cristina & Liviu-Augustin Chifane from PhD, Independent Scholars
will present The Relativism of Truth and Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant (2015) and Julian Barnes’ The Only Story (2018)
Abstract
Both Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes forge deep into the human mind by questioning the absolutism of love and truth. In The Buried Giant (2015) and The Only Story (2018), the two writers share the impact of traumatic events on the characters’ (re)actions. This article relies on a comparative analysis tackling the psychological consequences of trauma and the memory’s power to reconstruct the past. Finally, the aim is to explore the narrative means used to reflect traumatic memories and the nature of the influence exerted on the narrator’s reliability.
In section
British and Commonwealth Literature