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Literary criticism
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Article
DOI: 
10.18500/1817-7115-2011-11-4-106-111

Mechanisms of Memory in «Nothing to be Frightened of» by Julian Barnes

Autors: 
Gorbunova Olga Vsevolodovna, Saratov State University
Abstract: 

The article studies the autobiographical book by Julian Barnes, the contemporary English postmodernist writer, where his personal memories illustrate the illusive nature of memory and its limits, revealing such mechanisms of memory as subjective interpretation, forgetting and imagining.

Key words: 
Julian Barnes
memory
forgetting
personal identity
narrative
postmodernism
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