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Rethinking transcultural reception of memories in Julian Barnes’s Nothing to Be Frightened of
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“People say of death, ‘There’s nothing to be frightened of.’ They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. ‘There’s NOTHING to be frightened of’. The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word ‘nothing’”, reflects the narrator in Julian Barnes’s Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008). He continues: “We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten” (Barnes, 99-100). In several Barnes’s works, the concept of nothingness provides access to important and yet unexplored aspects of human experience, displaying a dialectical relationship between remembering and forgetting. In Nothing to Be Frightened Of, the narrative construction of semantic silence approximates to the conception of rhetorical nothingness, thoroughly analysed in J.M. Winter’s examination of collective memory and carried out in Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance. Instead of considering remembering and forgetting as hermetical and mutually exclusive, this study insists on their profound etymological connectiveness and thematic interplay, observable within contemporary social and cultural frameworks.
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Transcultural Memory Julian Barnes Performativity of Memory Death
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Bollinger, Elena. Rethinking Transcultural Reception of Memories In Julian Barnes’s Nothing to Be Frightened of. Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2024.
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Iris Publishers