The Sense Of An Ending

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Vom Ende einer Geschichte ist ein erschienener Roman des englischen Schriftstellers Julian Barnes. Im englischen Original lautet der Titel The Sense of an Ending. The Sense of an Ending | Barnes, Julian | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Im englischen Original lautet der Titel The Sense of an Ending. Für den Roman wurde Barnes mit dem renommierten britischen Literaturpreis Man Booker​. Jetzt online bestellen! Heimlieferung oder in Filiale: The Sense of an Ending Winner of the Booker Prize Nominiert: Warwick Prize for Writing von. Winner of the Man Booker PrizeBy an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books. "The Sense of an Ending" von Julian Barnes: Ansätze zu einer hermeneutischen Lektüre - Didaktik - Essay - ebook 10,99 € - GRIN. Wie sicher ist Erinnerung, wie unveränderlich die eigene Vergangenheit? Tony Webster muss lernen, dass Geschehnisse, die lange zurückliegen und von.

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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Jim Broadbent Tony Webster Charlotte Rampling Veronica Ford Harriet Walter Margaret Webster Michelle Dockery Susie Webster Matthew Goode Hunt Emily Mortimer Sarah Ford James Wilby David Ford Edward Holcroft Jack Ford Billy Howle Young Tony Freya Mavor Young Veronica Joe Alwyn Adrian Finn Peter Wight Colin Simpson Hilton McRae Alex Stuart Jack Loxton Young Colin Simpson Timothy Innes Edit Storyline Divorced and retired, Tony Webster, an aging Londoner and vintage camera shop owner, whittles down the solitude of his isolated existence by keeping an affectionate relationship with his ex-wife, Margaret, and by accompanying his nearly full-term pregnant daughter, Susie, to antenatal courses.

Edit Did You Know? Batra was so nervous at meeting Barnes that he subsequently forgot most of their conversation, save for Barnes's parting line, spoken in jest: "Go ahead and betray me.

Goofs Young Tony affixes a 'first-class' stamp to his fateful letter, sent in This sort of stamp was not produced for another 26 years in Quotes Tony Webster : I once knew a pasteurised lesbian.

Soundtracks Slavonic Dance No 7 in c minor, op. Was this review helpful to you? View all 52 comments. Sep 11, Paul Bryant rated it did not like it Shelves: novels.

Such was the big fat craptastic big-reveal groanworthy lurid pulpy Victorian melodramatic you-got-to-be-kidding ending-with-no-sense that the two stars this novel was hanging on to by its fingernails up to page slipped out of its grasp and it ended up with the ignominious one star, but since that puts it in the same company as many much-loved novels it may well be worn as a Badge Of Honour — I envisage one of those peelable stickers on all future editions A P BRYANT ONE STAR NOVEL!!

So, mainstream literature is now a minority sport like lacrosse or curling, and should be rebranded. But then, even stranger, to find oneself as the minority of the minority of the minority….

Which happens when the majority of the minority are all raving about a novel that turns out to be The Sense of an Ending. Top novel.

This one, pages of picking over an old friendship and a first romance the banal entanglements of which come to a vague watery light when the deceased mother of the ancient girlfriend it was all 40 years ago bequeaths to our boring narrator a diary.

Like a bolt from the blue. The girlfriend would not redacted , the mother would totally not redacted and if the friend really did redacted then the narrator redacted.

Read the good Bookers, avoid the Bad. Keep on the sunny side of life. View all 48 comments. Peacejanz I agree, John Sundman -- tell Paul why it is a good book.

I already did it. He probably forgot. Oct 30, AM. Dec 06, Auntjenny rated it did not like it. Definitely has a plot, but a pathetic one. Thin characters, cliched ideas.

I feel annoyed by having read this book. I don't understand how this won the Booker Prize. What the heck did Tony ever do to anyone except send a crappy letter to an ex-girlfrien Definitely has a plot, but a pathetic one.

What the heck did Tony ever do to anyone except send a crappy letter to an ex-girlfriend who was now going out with one of his best friends?

And why the money from "The Mother? Nor does younger Adrian's fear of Tony when he mentions being friends with "Mary.

I've been reading too many books lately. I need to start watching more television. View all 30 comments. Apr 09, Cecily rated it it was amazing Shelves: miscellaneous-fiction , solitary-protagonist , unreliable-narrators.

They are on the cusp of going to university. As they go their separate ways, they stay in touch to greater or lesser extents, but events of their youth echo across the years, and as he approaches retirement, Tony tries to draw the threads together and make sense of his life.

Very self-absorbed and not especially likeable , but if anything, I think that makes the book more interesting. In particular, there are two rather unbalanced relationships that left their mark: with Adrian who joined school later than the others and his first proper girlfriend, Veronica.

Despite this, and a couple of shocking incidents, Tony is not unhappy with the course of his life, though he is not entirely happy either.

Can you reverse remorse to guilt and forgiveness? Memory, History, Truth The recurring theme is the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of memory, coupled with the effects of time.

Tony is forever musing on memory, history and truth. Revelations prompt further re-evaluation and interpretation. Maybe none of this is true some elements of the plot and the behaviour of key characters are implausible, or at least, not adequately explained , but does it matter anyway?

Surely that is the point Barnes is making. Many books feature unreliable narrators but it's quite refreshing to read one where the narrator is pondering their own unreliability.

Some people dislike Tony so much that that it taints their enjoyment of the entire book, but to some extent Tony is everyman and we are all Tony, which leads me to wonder if the dislikers are TOO like Tony for their own comfort!

This is a story that reveals far more with each encounter like the film, The Sixth Sense : because you know the denouement, you spot the significance of trivial signs earlier on - and also notice the gaps where Tony, and probably the reader, has connected dots that shouldn't be.

Petra nails this aspect in the final paragraph of her short, but perfectly formed, review here. And then there is John Banville , all of whose books seem to focus on, and are often narrated by such people.

See my reviews HERE. There was less about schooldays fair enough , and Tony was slightly more likeable, which will help some who disliked the book for that reason.

The narrative jumped about with Tony's understanding in a similar way to the book. Three of the six watery images that open the book and this review are featured prominently.

See: imdb page. View all 96 comments. Apr 01, Steve rated it really liked it. Too many of you have read and fully absorbed the Remembrance series and would no doubt think of me in the end as the poseur that I am were I to feign any insight.

One of them, Disgrace , by J. A Ship of Fools is out for the same reason. The title certainly fits. Did he ring true? Could I imagine myself in his shoes?

The book actually fits for another reason, too. The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

As a retiree in his sixties, once married, now divorced, father of a daughter he considers close contrary to most evidence , and one who has led a rather quotidian life, Tony reflects on several key junctures from his youth.

But Veronica was the one in possession of it, and was very reluctant to give it up. Please indulge me one last time as I take even more quotes from this book and relate them to my years on Goodreads.

The retired and resigned version of Tony near the end of the book had this to say: "… as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been.

Even if you have assiduously kept records— in words, sound, pictures— you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping. The right kind of record-keeping, to me, would be the thoughts and reactions on Goodreads.

Those reflect something meaningful, and say more about what makes you you. Even so, as the memories of those who participated with you fade, so does your presence.

I guess that means anything I say beyond this point is meta-unreliable. From From From From I had considered giving this book either five stars or one since those are the reviews that often contain the most passionate arguments and attract the most curious readers.

This one is a solid 3. Tony was a little frustrating at times for his unreliable Tony-centric views, but I did like the theme. Besides, that Barnes guy writes really well.

I can only hope that our collective memories never fool us into thinking that our time together has been anything but great. View all comments.

Jul 16, Emily May rated it it was ok Recommends it for: philosophy fanatics. Shelves: I think my years as a philosophy student were actually detrimental to my enjoyment of this short novel about life and memory.

The stuff that has left other people reeling in amazement reminded me of little more than just another essay on the mind and the way we think, the way we interpret events and the way our memories can let us down.

Mr Barnes is clearly a clever man and his writing is a touch complex but always charming. However, is this really that original anymore? I don't think so.

I c I think my years as a philosophy student were actually detrimental to my enjoyment of this short novel about life and memory.

I can point you towards many - even young adult - books with equally unreliable narrators that are much more engaging, gripping and altogether more rewarding - even if they do lack the complexity of the mind-delving going on in The Sense of an Ending.

And, though Barnes thoroughly explores the mind of Tony Webster, I found him to be a painfully bland and unexciting protagonist that no amount of philosophical thought could save.

This is a book that will suit people who like to think about everything. It is more or less the story of a very average man who pulls apart and analyses his memory of school, first love, first sexual encounters, his marriage I thought I was the kind of person who likes to question things in an unbelievably anal way.

For example, the other night I had the most pointless and stupid discussion with my dad about knowledge, where he said that he knew there were blind people in Spain don't ask, just don't ask , and I said he couldn't possibly know that for certain unless he'd gone to Spain and met a blind person.

He said he could. Then I said he couldn't. As you can tell, it was a very productive evening. But my point is that I enjoy philosophy.

Tony Webster, however, philosophises about his whole life, a life that just isn't interesting enough for me to care about the "reasons" behind its events.

I like, in theory, the idea that everything isn't always as simple as it seems, that things run deeper, that people have hidden and questionable motivations for the things they do and say, and that memory is not the truth but the story we tell ourselves.

The idea of this book, I like. And some people love the simplistic side of it, the analysis of real and everyday life, rather than using philosophy to look at murder or something equally dramatic.

But I don't believe that Tony's story was exciting enough to want to question. I actually don't care why Adrian did what he did, or why Veronica's mother behaved in a certain way.

Perhaps my biggest problem with this book is that I don't care about Tony. Why would I want to hurt my brain straining to think about something that doesn't interest me?

Some people obviously saw something much deeper in this, perhaps a message about society as a whole that says something important about our current world I personally saw it as a failed attempt to turn the mediocre into something poetic.

But it was too nicely written to be one star. View all 29 comments. Sep 26, Adina rated it it was amazing Shelves: booker , , british , mcewan-barnes-coetzee-and-co , short , favorites.

A story about the unreliability of memory and how we can chose to forget or to reinvent the past in order not to remember disturbing truths. The tone of the story is quite similar in some ways.

Barne 4. Barnes, McEwan and Coetzee have a way with words that I find brilliant. They use simple prose but with such a punch. I am not fully satisfied about how the author finished the book and left some of the events unexplained.

Maybe that was the intention but I would have liked to understand a little bit better the reason behind some of Veronica's behavior. View all 31 comments.

I had never really intended to read this book, and I certainly had no intention of owning it. Well it is sort of cosmic for a collector such as I to find one first American edition in the I had never really intended to read this book, and I certainly had no intention of owning it.

Well it is sort of cosmic for a collector such as I to find one first American edition in the pile. Small chance of the book ever being a collectible, but it is almost impossible mental hindrances for me to buy a later printing of a book.

What Barnes wrote about English Prep school was stale, as stale as a saltine cracker I found in the glove box of my pickup. The mystery is I don't remember ever eating saltines in my pickup.

Luckily Barnes moved on to more interesting material. Tony Webster is a guy of average intelligence who was arguably the least interesting member of a group of rather bright friends.

In particular, one friend, Adrian was head and shoulders above the rest with a true philosopher's mind that earned him a spot at Cambridge.

Tom was always trying to understand Adrian and always felt as if he was not seeing the picture the same way as his friend. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.

And call the result common sense. Their relationship becomes rocky when Tony's ex-girlfriend, Veronica, starts dating Adrian.

Veronica's favorite line to Tony is "you didn't get it then, you don't get it now and you will never get it". She is one of those people that think everyone is supposed to understand what is in her head and refuses to give even the most minuscule bit of information to help Tony know what is motivating her decisions.

Even though she is incessantly disrespectful to Tony he sees her as more intelligent, more hip than he is, and is always attempting to better himself in her eyes.

Reading a fragment of Adrian's diary 40 years after he killed himself, Tony, now in his sixties still finds himself in need of validation.

This was the question that Adrian's fragment set off in me. There had been addition--and subtraction--in my life, but how much was multiplication?

At only pages I felt that the early pages spent at the prep school could have been skipped and made the story closer to flawless.

A few flash backs would have sufficed to give the reader the background necessary to follow the plot. I will close with one more bit of introspection from Tony.

Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives? To die when something new is being born--even if that something new is our very own self?

Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

View all 32 comments. Mar 29, JV semi-hiatus rated it liked it Shelves: curiouser-and-curiouser , , audiobooks , literary-fiction , contemporary , brit-lit.

You might be flummoxed as to why I have decided to define the word "stupefy" first. Fortunately, it has something to do with this narrative as it left me gobsmacked or stupefied after reading this short novel.

Apparently, the two aforementioned definitions did work their magic through me! And speaking of magic, the spell that we Hogwarts students cast are rather worth mentioning, because it also left me stunned and it absolutely knocked me out!

Incantation : Stupefy Purpose : To stun an opponent, rendering them unconscious Yes, that picture above is me!

Not the standing one because that's freakin' Harry Potter! He "stupefied" me because yours truly is a puny absent-minded Ravenclaw who forgot how to deflect those bloody spells!

I urge you to replace Harry Potter with "book" and you'll have the same effect after reading this, thank you very much!

Pardon me for such digression and do know that this narrative delves into memory, history, and one's own responsibility in the timeline of events that have occurred in the forgotten years and it also explores how the power of words can utterly shatter and upend the lives of others.

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.

Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves. The floodgates of yore open and his peaceful life are thrown once again into chaos as he struggles to confront the restless and vengeful ghosts of the past and one of them from beyond the grave, thereby, re-examining history and recollecting significant events that had occurred as well as his proverbial role in it.

Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches. If nothing goes wrong, the tape erases itself.

Our memory allows us to reconstruct events and recreate scenarios to fit what we perceive as acceptable and reasonable while excising or expunging parts we deem as spiteful, malicious, painful, and even distressing.

Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost.

And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of. This novel wasn't enthralling for me and I couldn't see myself in any of the characters.

Some parts of this novel were quite dull. I also find Tony Webster, our an unreliable narrator, such an unkind arsehole!

You never did, and you never will. Thankfully, I've reached the end, and yes, I was indeed stupefied! Harry Potter knocked me out in a duel!

But then again you could replace Harry Potter with "this book" to know the intensity of the damage that dear Harry has given to my Ravenclaw brain, but luckily I solved the problem nevertheless thank you scratch papers, clues, and equations!

If you fancy connecting the dots, then this novel might be for you! Otherwise, you might want to make some sense out of this book's ending or your life, philosophically, for that matter.

Perhaps, this is a lens to be worn later in life and not now at my current age. View all 82 comments. Tony Webster is a shallow douchebag.

As Tony divulges the circumstances surrounding a pivotal juncture in his youth, he would have you believe that his best friend was a disloyal SOB, his girlfriend a Cutthroat Bitch , and he perfectly justified in telling them both to fuck off.

And perhaps he was. Again, that is not the problem I have with Tony Webster. Even that he holds on so tightly to warped memories as reasons for his past behavior which are really justifications is something I do not hold against him—we all do that to a certain extent.

If his reasons were sincere, if he actually felt like he needed to atone for something, then I might understand. It does make you reconsider his life details in a new light, though: his failed marriage, the distant relationship he has with his daughter, his pathetic lack of friends.

History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. Yes, email. And he considers this an appropriate form of closure?

Seriously, Tony, go fuck yourself hide spoiler ]. This book does present an interesting supposition, though—that past events are easier to understand from the historical perspective, the fact that one can see an event in its entirety, more objectively, and from various angles with the passage of time, which allows for a more accurate account of that event.

Although the narrator uses this to justify his own shallow behavior, I thought it was a pretty enlightening concept nonetheless.

View all 27 comments. Shelves: literary-stuff , made-me-think. This enigmatic literary fiction novel does a great job of playing with perceptions.

I pulled out this short Booker Prize novel one night, thinking I'd just read a bit to get a feel for it, to know what to tell my book club about it, since I needed to suggest a choice of 4 or 5 books to my book club the next day for their vote.

A few hours later I finished the book, moved but a little bewildered. In the first fifty pages the narrator, Tony, tells of some events in his high school and college days This enigmatic literary fiction novel does a great job of playing with perceptions.

In the first fifty pages the narrator, Tony, tells of some events in his high school and college days: a group of rather pretentious friends who, for the most part, play at being intellectuals , a relationship with a girl, Veronica, that didn't work out, a friend's suicide, marriage, divorce, retirement Then the next hundred pages happen: a bequest in a will.

A short, enigmatic note from the woman who died. A renewed acquaintance with Veronica. More surprises. Some readers dislike Tony enough that it dampens or ruins their enjoyment of the book, but I had a great deal of sympathy for him.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded -- and how pitiful that was. But time We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe.

We imagined we were being responsible but we were only being cowardly. I've felt those feelings. This blog has one writer's explanation of what was really happening, and an extremely long but intensely interesting comment section where various readers chip in with their theories and insights, which gave me a lot of food for thought.

Can we even trust what he says in the end? I tend to think so, at the very end, but I think it's clear that, at the least, he's still oblivious about some things, like how Veronica felt about him when they were dating.

The comments that gave me the most food for thought were the ones that suggested he, too, had a fling with Veronica's mother, and was the actual father of her child.

I don't think I buy it, ultimately, but Content notes: Scattered F-bombs and some sexual content. View all 4 comments. Feb 04, Teresa rated it it was amazing.

This book got under my skin. Not in the negative way, like what Tony, the narrator, may be doing, or trying to do, to Veronica, who 40 years ago was his first serious girlfriend, but in the way he describes how his ex-wife would dress a chicken -- slipping butter and herbs under the skin, with a delicate hand, never breaking the outer layer.

I was hooked from the first page and even when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it, even in my sleep, or, more likely, semi-sleep. I was pulled int This book got under my skin.

I was pulled into the dream of someone else's life, like the best novels do to the reader, and I stayed there. Though the book at first reminded me greatly of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier my guess is that was intentional , somewhere after the middle, it stopped feeling like it altogether and became its own entity.

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It then comes back to haunt them - or one of them, anyway - in late middle-age, and as Miracle Season are jogged and regrets bubble to the surface, insight is finally gained. Instead of the will being a liberating instrument, this can make it Walt Disney - Der Zauberer another chain of bondage. View all 51 comments. Along the way he also toys with shouldering responsibility for what happened in the lives of Veronica and Adrian - but, as I see it, this over-estimation of his own importance is Mcdonalds Soltau another one Daydreamer his memory delusions and instead he may be on the sidelines of this story, regardless of what his unreliable memory tells him his life story should be. But Veronica was an enigma to both Tony and me. Recommended to Rakhi by: Norman. View all Band Of Brothers Deutsch Komplett Film comments. That said, it was a pretty decent book. I pulled out this short Wwm Fragen Prize novel one night, thinking I'd just read a bit to get a feel for it, to know what Nackt Beim Frauenarzt tell my book club about it, since I needed to suggest a choice of 4 or 5 books to my book club the next day for their vote. Films directed by Ritesh Batra.

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Sense of an Ending Bitte melden Sie sich an, um Produkte in Ihre Merkliste hinzuzufügen. Am Damals, in den 60ern. Mich persönlich hat das Buch vor allem melancholisch gestimmt, mich aufgewühlt und zum Nachdenken gebracht. Tony empfindet tiefe Reue und wünscht sich, diese in Schuld zurückverwandeln zu können, um so Vergebung zu finden, was sich natürlich als unmöglich erweist. Bewertung verfassen. Nach der ersten Hälfte des Gerald Und Anna, in der die Rollberg Kino Berlin des Protagonisten im Mittelpunkt Transformers 1 Film, geht es im zweiten Teil vor allem um verpasste Chancen, Reue aufgrund falscher Entscheidungen und um die Streiche, die uns unser Gedächtnis spielt. Das war auch die Zeit als Adrian zu ihrem Freundeskreis dazu kam. Zuletzt angesehen. Doch der …mehr. Telegraph Media Group. Following this visit home, the couple officially breaks up, Adrian writes to Tony for permission to Rene Heinersdorff Veronica, and the ex-couple does not hear or see of each other for the Aiden Turner forty years. View Nader Und Simin 17 comments. Articles featuring this book. What time? This sort of stamp was not produced for another 26 years in Gadamers Hermeneutik. The Significance of Narrative Strateg Der Artikel Scary Movie 3 Ganzer Film dem Warenkorb hinzugefügt. Filtern: 5 Sterne Schon Lidt pragmatischen Kriterien, öffentlich Erniedrigt in der Lehrveranstaltung vorgegeben wurden, nämlich dass das Werk nicht allzu lang und zudem relativ aktuell sein sollte, schränkten die Wahl ein. Am Die einzige Geschichte. Die Hermeneutik Gadamers. Die Besten Thriller Filme 2014 Webster ist im mittleren Alter, Grabgeflüster Stream hat Karriere gemacht und geheiratet.

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Kurzmeinung: Retro Charme der 60er, wunderbar geschrieben. Tony Webster ist im mittleren Alter, er hat Karriere gemacht und geheiratet. The Pursuit of Meaning in Julian Barn Doch nach dem Schulabschluss gehen die vier Jungs getrennte Wege.

On re-reading it, Tony realises how malicious and unpleasant it was, and how he has erased this from his memory. Nevertheless, he persists in attempting to retrieve the diary from Veronica, which leads to her asking him to meet at a location in North London, where she drives him to see a group of mentally handicapped men being taken for a walk by their careworker, one of whom she points out to him.

Tony does not understand the significance of this and Veronica leaves him with no explanation. Over the course of several weeks, Tony revisits the location until he is able to relocate the man Veronica showed him in a pub.

Tony greets the man saying he is a friend of Veronica's which leads to an upset response from the man. Tony recalls the memory of Adrian from the man's facial features.

He e-mails Veronica an apology, saying he didn't realise that she and Adrian had a son together. Veronica only responds with the reply "You don't get it, but then you never did.

We are left to connect the dots, presuming that Adrian is the father and that the birth of this damaged son may be the reason for his suicide.

The Sense of an Ending has received mostly positive reviews from critics. Michael Prodger of The Financial Times said the novel's inclusion on the Man Booker Prize longlist was "absolutely merited" and he praised the intricate mechanism of the novel and said Barnes's writing is "founded on precision as well as on the nuances of language.

It is perhaps his greatest achievement that, in his hands, the unknowable does not mean the implausible. Its mystery is as deeply embedded as the most archaic of memories.

But the many truths he highlights make it worthy of a careful read. Although Sexton praised Barnes skill "Yet this novella does not move or satisfy It is a story repelled by the responsibility of having children, and its final disclosure is offputting It's a quiet book, but the shock that comes doesn't break stride with the tone of the rest of the book.

In purely technical terms it is one of the most masterful things I've ever read. A film adaptation of the same name made its world premiere as the opening film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in Palm Springs, California on 5 January The limited US release began on 10 March From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 18 October The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Entertainment Focus. The book at first appears, right to the end, to be a rather mundane story of the life of an ordinary man who is neither perceptive about the people around him nor does he see himself in a clear light.

Only at the end is it apparent that there were two different stories being written at the same time and you can perceive all the clues to the second story only in hindsight although they were so clear, you wonder how you could have missed them.

You wonder how the protagonist could h Just brilliant. You wonder how the protagonist could have misinterpreted, forgotten and ignored them as well.

Or did he? Maybe it was just in reflection he could put all the pieces together. This is genius writing. This was two ways of reading a story, one written to be read in the usual way, forwards, and the other backwards, with hindsight.

This is why Barnes won the Booker Prize. View all 51 comments. Dec 17, K. Shelves: favorites , stylish , booker. You never did. Then Tony Webster will not have to spend all his life trying to grapple the memories he thought to be contained in his whole pathetic life.

You see, Tony Webster is a double-sided man: he seems to be this gentle go-with-the-flow nice man who respects his girlfriend not to have real sex until they are ready.

The kind of letter that would put to shame even the vilest and the most manipulating characters of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in his masterpiece Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

But that slow tease makes the reading very interesting and fun. The book is thin and the letters are big. The brevity does not reflect the jam-packed plot and the intricate thoughts that go on inside the mind of Tony Webster.

You see, the story is a book narrated in the first person and Tony Webster is what they call in literature, film or theatre, as unreliable narrator.

Barnes deceives the reader into believing that the character of Tony Webster in the first part of the story will be consistent.

Until the revelation in the second part but I did not feel disgustingly deceived. I was amused, surprised but definitely bewildered by the brilliancy on how Barnes put everything intricately together.

The prose is crisp, clear and concise. Definitely British but it is not stiff and rigid. This is my first Barnes and I used to think before that his prose would be a challenge to enjoy.

Definitely not: it is very readable and easy to comprehend even for an Asian like me. Ah oh, the theme. It is something that I can truly relate to: a middle-age retired man who tried to live a peaceful ordinary British life.

With a grown-up daughter and an ex-wife who he still maintains as a friend, he now lives alone with only the memoirs of how he thought his life went through as a young man.

I think that this looking back to the what-ifs is one of the favorite pastimes of middle-age people during their spare quite time. And I am beginning to imbibe this hobby as I am approaching retirement ha ha.

You will pick this book if: 1. You make sure that you read all the Man Booker winning books; 2. You are a fan of Julian Barnes; or 3.

You believe in my rating and you like this review. You will like this book if: 1. You pretend to like or actually like less populist contemporary books; 2.

You like all works of Julian Barnes and you hate to have an exception; and 3. You are an old or middle-age man and you are fond of thinking of your what-ifs.

May the Good Lord bless you with more years so you can write more beautiful novels, Mr. View all 52 comments. Sep 11, Paul Bryant rated it did not like it Shelves: novels.

Such was the big fat craptastic big-reveal groanworthy lurid pulpy Victorian melodramatic you-got-to-be-kidding ending-with-no-sense that the two stars this novel was hanging on to by its fingernails up to page slipped out of its grasp and it ended up with the ignominious one star, but since that puts it in the same company as many much-loved novels it may well be worn as a Badge Of Honour — I envisage one of those peelable stickers on all future editions A P BRYANT ONE STAR NOVEL!!

So, mainstream literature is now a minority sport like lacrosse or curling, and should be rebranded. But then, even stranger, to find oneself as the minority of the minority of the minority….

Which happens when the majority of the minority are all raving about a novel that turns out to be The Sense of an Ending. Top novel.

This one, pages of picking over an old friendship and a first romance the banal entanglements of which come to a vague watery light when the deceased mother of the ancient girlfriend it was all 40 years ago bequeaths to our boring narrator a diary.

Like a bolt from the blue. The girlfriend would not redacted , the mother would totally not redacted and if the friend really did redacted then the narrator redacted.

Read the good Bookers, avoid the Bad. Keep on the sunny side of life. View all 48 comments. Peacejanz I agree, John Sundman -- tell Paul why it is a good book.

I already did it. He probably forgot. Oct 30, AM. Dec 06, Auntjenny rated it did not like it. Definitely has a plot, but a pathetic one.

Thin characters, cliched ideas. I feel annoyed by having read this book. I don't understand how this won the Booker Prize. What the heck did Tony ever do to anyone except send a crappy letter to an ex-girlfrien Definitely has a plot, but a pathetic one.

What the heck did Tony ever do to anyone except send a crappy letter to an ex-girlfriend who was now going out with one of his best friends? And why the money from "The Mother?

Nor does younger Adrian's fear of Tony when he mentions being friends with "Mary. I've been reading too many books lately.

I need to start watching more television. View all 30 comments. Apr 09, Cecily rated it it was amazing Shelves: miscellaneous-fiction , solitary-protagonist , unreliable-narrators.

They are on the cusp of going to university. As they go their separate ways, they stay in touch to greater or lesser extents, but events of their youth echo across the years, and as he approaches retirement, Tony tries to draw the threads together and make sense of his life.

Very self-absorbed and not especially likeable , but if anything, I think that makes the book more interesting.

In particular, there are two rather unbalanced relationships that left their mark: with Adrian who joined school later than the others and his first proper girlfriend, Veronica.

Despite this, and a couple of shocking incidents, Tony is not unhappy with the course of his life, though he is not entirely happy either.

Can you reverse remorse to guilt and forgiveness? Memory, History, Truth The recurring theme is the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of memory, coupled with the effects of time.

Tony is forever musing on memory, history and truth. Revelations prompt further re-evaluation and interpretation.

Maybe none of this is true some elements of the plot and the behaviour of key characters are implausible, or at least, not adequately explained , but does it matter anyway?

Surely that is the point Barnes is making. Many books feature unreliable narrators but it's quite refreshing to read one where the narrator is pondering their own unreliability.

Some people dislike Tony so much that that it taints their enjoyment of the entire book, but to some extent Tony is everyman and we are all Tony, which leads me to wonder if the dislikers are TOO like Tony for their own comfort!

This is a story that reveals far more with each encounter like the film, The Sixth Sense : because you know the denouement, you spot the significance of trivial signs earlier on - and also notice the gaps where Tony, and probably the reader, has connected dots that shouldn't be.

Petra nails this aspect in the final paragraph of her short, but perfectly formed, review here. And then there is John Banville , all of whose books seem to focus on, and are often narrated by such people.

See my reviews HERE. There was less about schooldays fair enough , and Tony was slightly more likeable, which will help some who disliked the book for that reason.

The narrative jumped about with Tony's understanding in a similar way to the book. Three of the six watery images that open the book and this review are featured prominently.

See: imdb page. View all 96 comments. Apr 01, Steve rated it really liked it. Too many of you have read and fully absorbed the Remembrance series and would no doubt think of me in the end as the poseur that I am were I to feign any insight.

One of them, Disgrace , by J. A Ship of Fools is out for the same reason. The title certainly fits. Did he ring true? Could I imagine myself in his shoes?

The book actually fits for another reason, too. The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

As a retiree in his sixties, once married, now divorced, father of a daughter he considers close contrary to most evidence , and one who has led a rather quotidian life, Tony reflects on several key junctures from his youth.

But Veronica was the one in possession of it, and was very reluctant to give it up. Please indulge me one last time as I take even more quotes from this book and relate them to my years on Goodreads.

The retired and resigned version of Tony near the end of the book had this to say: "… as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been.

Even if you have assiduously kept records— in words, sound, pictures— you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping.

The right kind of record-keeping, to me, would be the thoughts and reactions on Goodreads. Those reflect something meaningful, and say more about what makes you you.

Even so, as the memories of those who participated with you fade, so does your presence. I guess that means anything I say beyond this point is meta-unreliable.

From From From From I had considered giving this book either five stars or one since those are the reviews that often contain the most passionate arguments and attract the most curious readers.

This one is a solid 3. Tony was a little frustrating at times for his unreliable Tony-centric views, but I did like the theme. Besides, that Barnes guy writes really well.

I can only hope that our collective memories never fool us into thinking that our time together has been anything but great.

View all comments. Jul 16, Emily May rated it it was ok Recommends it for: philosophy fanatics. Shelves: I think my years as a philosophy student were actually detrimental to my enjoyment of this short novel about life and memory.

The stuff that has left other people reeling in amazement reminded me of little more than just another essay on the mind and the way we think, the way we interpret events and the way our memories can let us down.

Mr Barnes is clearly a clever man and his writing is a touch complex but always charming. However, is this really that original anymore?

I don't think so. I c I think my years as a philosophy student were actually detrimental to my enjoyment of this short novel about life and memory.

I can point you towards many - even young adult - books with equally unreliable narrators that are much more engaging, gripping and altogether more rewarding - even if they do lack the complexity of the mind-delving going on in The Sense of an Ending.

And, though Barnes thoroughly explores the mind of Tony Webster, I found him to be a painfully bland and unexciting protagonist that no amount of philosophical thought could save.

This is a book that will suit people who like to think about everything. It is more or less the story of a very average man who pulls apart and analyses his memory of school, first love, first sexual encounters, his marriage I thought I was the kind of person who likes to question things in an unbelievably anal way.

For example, the other night I had the most pointless and stupid discussion with my dad about knowledge, where he said that he knew there were blind people in Spain don't ask, just don't ask , and I said he couldn't possibly know that for certain unless he'd gone to Spain and met a blind person.

He said he could. Then I said he couldn't. As you can tell, it was a very productive evening. But my point is that I enjoy philosophy.

Tony Webster, however, philosophises about his whole life, a life that just isn't interesting enough for me to care about the "reasons" behind its events.

I like, in theory, the idea that everything isn't always as simple as it seems, that things run deeper, that people have hidden and questionable motivations for the things they do and say, and that memory is not the truth but the story we tell ourselves.

The idea of this book, I like. And some people love the simplistic side of it, the analysis of real and everyday life, rather than using philosophy to look at murder or something equally dramatic.

But I don't believe that Tony's story was exciting enough to want to question. I actually don't care why Adrian did what he did, or why Veronica's mother behaved in a certain way.

Perhaps my biggest problem with this book is that I don't care about Tony. Why would I want to hurt my brain straining to think about something that doesn't interest me?

Some people obviously saw something much deeper in this, perhaps a message about society as a whole that says something important about our current world I personally saw it as a failed attempt to turn the mediocre into something poetic.

But it was too nicely written to be one star. View all 29 comments. Sep 26, Adina rated it it was amazing Shelves: booker , , british , mcewan-barnes-coetzee-and-co , short , favorites.

A story about the unreliability of memory and how we can chose to forget or to reinvent the past in order not to remember disturbing truths.

The tone of the story is quite similar in some ways. Barne 4. Barnes, McEwan and Coetzee have a way with words that I find brilliant.

They use simple prose but with such a punch. I am not fully satisfied about how the author finished the book and left some of the events unexplained.

Maybe that was the intention but I would have liked to understand a little bit better the reason behind some of Veronica's behavior.

View all 31 comments. I had never really intended to read this book, and I certainly had no intention of owning it. Well it is sort of cosmic for a collector such as I to find one first American edition in the I had never really intended to read this book, and I certainly had no intention of owning it.

Well it is sort of cosmic for a collector such as I to find one first American edition in the pile. Small chance of the book ever being a collectible, but it is almost impossible mental hindrances for me to buy a later printing of a book.

What Barnes wrote about English Prep school was stale, as stale as a saltine cracker I found in the glove box of my pickup.

The mystery is I don't remember ever eating saltines in my pickup. Luckily Barnes moved on to more interesting material. Tony Webster is a guy of average intelligence who was arguably the least interesting member of a group of rather bright friends.

In particular, one friend, Adrian was head and shoulders above the rest with a true philosopher's mind that earned him a spot at Cambridge.

Tom was always trying to understand Adrian and always felt as if he was not seeing the picture the same way as his friend.

Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.

And call the result common sense. Their relationship becomes rocky when Tony's ex-girlfriend, Veronica, starts dating Adrian.

Veronica's favorite line to Tony is "you didn't get it then, you don't get it now and you will never get it".

She is one of those people that think everyone is supposed to understand what is in her head and refuses to give even the most minuscule bit of information to help Tony know what is motivating her decisions.

Even though she is incessantly disrespectful to Tony he sees her as more intelligent, more hip than he is, and is always attempting to better himself in her eyes.

Reading a fragment of Adrian's diary 40 years after he killed himself, Tony, now in his sixties still finds himself in need of validation.

This was the question that Adrian's fragment set off in me. There had been addition--and subtraction--in my life, but how much was multiplication?

At only pages I felt that the early pages spent at the prep school could have been skipped and made the story closer to flawless. A few flash backs would have sufficed to give the reader the background necessary to follow the plot.

I will close with one more bit of introspection from Tony. Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives? To die when something new is being born--even if that something new is our very own self?

Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

View all 32 comments. Mar 29, JV semi-hiatus rated it liked it Shelves: curiouser-and-curiouser , , audiobooks , literary-fiction , contemporary , brit-lit.

You might be flummoxed as to why I have decided to define the word "stupefy" first. Fortunately, it has something to do with this narrative as it left me gobsmacked or stupefied after reading this short novel.

Apparently, the two aforementioned definitions did work their magic through me! And speaking of magic, the spell that we Hogwarts students cast are rather worth mentioning, because it also left me stunned and it absolutely knocked me out!

Incantation : Stupefy Purpose : To stun an opponent, rendering them unconscious Yes, that picture above is me! Not the standing one because that's freakin' Harry Potter!

He "stupefied" me because yours truly is a puny absent-minded Ravenclaw who forgot how to deflect those bloody spells!

I urge you to replace Harry Potter with "book" and you'll have the same effect after reading this, thank you very much! Pardon me for such digression and do know that this narrative delves into memory, history, and one's own responsibility in the timeline of events that have occurred in the forgotten years and it also explores how the power of words can utterly shatter and upend the lives of others.

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.

Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves. The floodgates of yore open and his peaceful life are thrown once again into chaos as he struggles to confront the restless and vengeful ghosts of the past and one of them from beyond the grave, thereby, re-examining history and recollecting significant events that had occurred as well as his proverbial role in it.

Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches. If nothing goes wrong, the tape erases itself. Our memory allows us to reconstruct events and recreate scenarios to fit what we perceive as acceptable and reasonable while excising or expunging parts we deem as spiteful, malicious, painful, and even distressing.

Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost.

And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of. This novel wasn't enthralling for me and I couldn't see myself in any of the characters.

Some parts of this novel were quite dull. I also find Tony Webster, our an unreliable narrator, such an unkind arsehole! You never did, and you never will.

Thankfully, I've reached the end, and yes, I was indeed stupefied! Harry Potter knocked me out in a duel! But then again you could replace Harry Potter with "this book" to know the intensity of the damage that dear Harry has given to my Ravenclaw brain, but luckily I solved the problem nevertheless thank you scratch papers, clues, and equations!

If you fancy connecting the dots, then this novel might be for you! Otherwise, you might want to make some sense out of this book's ending or your life, philosophically, for that matter.

Perhaps, this is a lens to be worn later in life and not now at my current age. View all 82 comments. Tony Webster is a shallow douchebag. As Tony divulges the circumstances surrounding a pivotal juncture in his youth, he would have you believe that his best friend was a disloyal SOB, his girlfriend a Cutthroat Bitch , and he perfectly justified in telling them both to fuck off.

And perhaps he was. The song's title is also an apt description of director Ritesh Batra's film version of the popular novel from Julian Barnes.

It's one man's look back at the impact of his impulsive actions more than 50 years ago. So says the narrator and lead character Tony Webster as played by Jim Broadbent.

Tony runs a tiny second hand camera store specializing in Leica models while leading a mostly benign life — rising daily at am, coffee with his ex-wife, and periodic errands for his pregnant daughter.

One day a certified letter arrives notifying him that he has been named in the Last Will and Testament of the mother of a girl he dated while at University.

And so begins the trek back through Tony's history and memories. Of course, a film version can never quite cut as deeply as a novel, but this preeminent cast works wonders in less than two hours.

Curmudgeonly Tony is accessible and somewhat sympathetic thanks to the stellar work of Mr. Broadbent, who always seems to find the real person within his characters.

Harriet Walther "The Crown" turns in a tremendous performance as Margaret, Tony's most patient and quite wise ex-wife. Michelle Dockery "Downton Abbey" is their pregnant 36 year old daughter Susie, and just these three characters could have provided a most interesting story.

The film's best scenes feature the comfort and familiarity of a once-married couple, as Tony and Harriet talk through previously never mentioned topics.

However, there is so much more to explore here as Tony's thoughts bring the past splashing right smack dab into the present.

Billy Howle does a nice job as young Tony, an aspiring poet, who falls hard for the enigmatic Veronica Freya Mavor. Complications arise when Tony spends a weekend with Veronica at her parents' estate.

It's here that Emily Mortimer energizes things and clouds thoughts with minimal screen time as Veronica's mother.

There is so much going on that director Batra's The Lunchbox, low-key approach is often misleading. Tony's distorted view of history crumbles when documented proof of his actions is presented at his first face to face meeting with Veronica the great Charlotte Rampling in five decades.

It's at this point that regret and guilt rise up, and the only question remaining is whether this elderly man can overcome his repressed emotions and self-centeredness in order to make the best of what time he has left.

Each of us has a life journey, and though few of us ever actually tell the story, there are undoubtedly numerous lessons to be had with an honest look back.

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