The Sense of An Ending. Julian Barnes

The Sense of An Ending. Julian Barnes

2012

London & Bristol.

성장소설. 화자는 이제 60줄이다. 고교단짝 친구들 모두 흩어진 삶이다. Veronica와 대학 초년생 시절 여느 짦은 연애를 한다.

케임브리지를 간 친구 Adrian은 자살했다.

 

2019년 4월4일 어머니는 이 땅을 떠났다. Borges의 글에서처럼, 어머니와의 헤어짐이, 내일 일어나 다시 만날 것을 기대하는 잠시만의 作別일 뿐이었다면 얼마나 좋을까. (鎭)

 

p.52.

 

Nor did any of them apply to Adrian. In the letters he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning: that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if the person to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is a moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

 

 

p.17

 

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was all about; love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice, revolution, war, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the individual against society, success and failure, murder, suicide, death, God. And barn owls.

 

2019년5월17일/ 越南國 胡志明市 Bui Vien

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