AUC PHILOLOGICA
AUC PHILOLOGICA

AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) je akademický časopis publikující jak lingvistické, tak literárně historické a teoretické studie. Nedílnou součástí časopisu jsou i recenze odborných knih a zprávy z akademického prostředí.

Časopis je indexován v databázích CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO a ERIH PLUS.

AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2022 No 2 (2022), 107–116

Stories We Tell About Ourselves And Others: Identity And Narration in Julian Barnes’s Oeuvre

Ladislav Nagy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.41
zveřejněno: 16. 03. 2023

Abstract

Julian Barnes’s second to last book to date, The Man in the Red Coat (2019), is a work of non-fiction, devoted to the life of the renowned Parisian surgeon Samuel Jean de Pozzi. It is, however, a special kind of nonfiction – in fact, the book illuminates in many ways the narrative practices in Barnes’s work in general. At the same time, it touches on a theme that permeates all of Barnes’s fictional work, namely the construction of identity through the stories we tell about ourselves and that others tell about us. Storytelling thus emerges as a fundamental human trait: it is our responsibility to narrate, for it is only in telling stories that we can grasp the world around us.

klíčová slova: fiction; contemporary British literature; narration

reference (8)

1. Barnes, Julian. "Double Bind". London Review of Books, 4.10 (3 June 1982).

2. Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending. London: Jonathan Cape, 2011.

3. Barnes, Julian. Levels of Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2013.

4. Barnes, Julian. The Man in the Red Coat. London: Penguin Books, 2019.

5. Carr, David, "Review Essay: Temps et Récit. Tome I. By Paul Ricoeur". History and Theory, 23 (1984): 368-69. CrossRef

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7. Mayer, Robert. History and the Early English Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

8. Ricoeur, Paul. Histoire et vérité. Paris: Seuil, 1955.

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