Until page 20

Background

• The author is famous: Julian Barnes

Questions

• Genre:
  • old man remembering novel,
  • Campus:
• Main character: Tony

First part

• Jeff: A lot of the novel is about how memory is fallible
• Collage
• Expressions

If I can’t be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left. That’s the best I can manage.

• History

What is History? Any thoughts, Webster?’ History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

• New historicism: histories vs History Wiki
• BBC documentary: “Biased Broadcasting Chinese”
  • narration
  • 进击的巨人: Attack on Titan
• materials

Robson had got his girlfriend pregnant, hanged himself in the attic, and not been found for two days.

• 野史
• Shall we really seek for the true fact (history)?
  • certain level of skepticism
• uncertainty principle，又译测不准原理

Next session:

• Read until page 40

As you can imagine, I enjoyed the bit about his moral scruples … Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.

Updated: 5 May, 2021
Created: 24 February, 2021