Abstract
Frank Kermode argued that the creation of stories is part of the inherently human attempt to attribute meaning to the end of life in his most renowned piece of literary criticism, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1965). According to his thesis, the lack of a solid, fixed order in life is the underlying motive for humankind to create fictions with definite beginnings, middles, and ends. The contemporary English author Julian Barnes portrays these ideas in his essayistic memoir, Nothing to Be Frightened of (2008) and his novel, The Sense of an Ending (2011). His reflection highlights the irreconcilable differences between life and narratives by placing emphasis on the manipulation involved in the reconstruction of the past through fallible means such as personal memory, and the implications this may have in the anticipation of death.
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