<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article analyses Julian Barnes’s <italic>The Noise of Time</italic>, a postmodernist parody of the Russian communist world, and shows that historical truth is turned into a story which is remembered with bitter irony and which offers various interpretations. Being nothing but a story, history, associated with the symbol of noise, becomes subject to parody. Emphasizing the role of irony in revealing the dramatic effects of the Russian communist past, this essay remarks that parody functions as severe criticism.</p></abstract>

This article analyses Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, a postmodernist parody of the Russian communist world, and shows that historical truth is turned into a story which is remembered with bitter irony and which offers various interpretations. Being nothing but a story, history, associated with the symbol of noise, becomes subject to parody. Emphasizing the role of irony in revealing the dramatic effects of the Russian communist past, this essay remarks that parody functions as severe criticism.

History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s <italic>the Noise of Time</italic>

Politehnica University of Bucharest, FILS-DCLM

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s 

This article analyses Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, a postmodernist parody of the Russian communist world, and shows that historical truth is turned into...

History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s the Noise of Time

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 25 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0004

Keywords
history, irony, parody, story, time

© 2019 Elisabeta Simona Catană, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s the Noise of Time

Published Online: Dec 05, 2019

Page range: 25 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0004

Keywordshistory, irony, parody, story, time

© 2019 Elisabeta Simona Catană, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
history, irony, parody, story, time