Frey, O: Narrative Technique in Julian Barnes' "Arthur & Geo
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
11.02.2009
Verlag
GRINSeitenzahl
32
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14.9/0.8 cm
Gewicht
110 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-640-26574-9
On the one hand, the novel provides "the conventional pleasure of historical fiction" (Walter, par. 4) because it revolves around real-life figures and is based on a real incident. Applying his investigative skills, Barnes carefully researched their biographies and history, and represents them faithfully and meticulously. On the other hand, it has to be borne in mind that it is nevertheless a fictionalized representation shaped by Barnes' creative and imaginative skills. Thus, the "novel mixes reality and imagination so that the book is part history, part biography and part fiction" (Guignery 129). In terms of genre, Arthur & George could hence be classified as faction, "a work that is on the borderline between fact and fiction, concerned primarily with a real event or persons, but using imagined detail to increase readability and verisimilitude" (Hawthorn 64).
It is exactly this delicate relationship of proven facts and fictional creations Barnes plays with throughout the novel in order to expose "[t]he tenuous nature of reality and the fine line between truth and fiction" (Ball, par. 5). Therefore, Arthur & George could even be categorized as a postmodern novel which authentically represents history, while being aware of its own artificiality and questioning the dichotomy of fact and fiction as well as the claim to one objective truth. In this context, it is worth examining in how far this is reflected on the level of surface content as well as on the level of textualisation, particularly in terms of narrative technique, including discursive devices such as structure, narrative situation, modes of speech, thought and consciousness representation, intertextuality and metafiction.
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