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History and Memory in The Sense of An Ending Prepared by Khuman Bhagirath J. Paper The New Literatures Roll No. 09 Class M.A. Sem-IV Year 2012/13
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History and Memory in The Sense of An Ending
Prepared by Khuman Bhagirath J.Paper The New LiteraturesRoll No. 09Class M.A. Sem-IVYear 2012/13
“Memory is not the opposite of forgetting, rather, it is a kind of
forgetting.” - Milan Kundera
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” –Napoleon Bonaparte
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.”
“…so I need to return to a few incidents that have grown into some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.”
“The diary was evidence; it was – it might be – corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump start something – though I had no idea what.”
"Most people didn't experience 'the Sixties' until the Seventies."
“The Sense of an Ending is a fine meditation on memory and how we shape our pasts to make the present endurable.” -Adrian
“What is centrally at stake is not the damage the narrator’s malevolence has or has not caused, but the sheer force of this malevolence, and the fact that he doesn’t notice it or remember it.” – Michael Wood
“Perhaps Tony’s form of self-correction is a defence mechanism.” -Opinionless
“This is my truth, now tell me yours.” - Aneurin Bevan
