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England as a Palimpsest in Julian Barnes’s England, England. Turning History Into a Story

Elisabeta Simona Catană

Elisabeta Simona Catană

The Polytechnic University of Bucharest, FILS-DCLM
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Dec 16, 2022
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Published Online: Dec 16, 2022
Page range: 50 - 57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0007
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This article analyses Julian Barnes’s England, England and shows that it recreates England as a palimpsest, presenting to us a parody of the past and circulating an ironic story of a possible version of this country with a rewritten history. Julian Barnes redefines history and the role of the historian in a novel which illustrates the idea that history is a story.

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English
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Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other, Germanic Languages, English
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