The London Millennium Bridge: Tony meets the older Veronica on the Wobbly Bridge
AQA (A) Literature: ‘The struggle for identity in modern literature’
Julian Barnes’s reputation has long rested on his engagement with history. In Flaubert’s Parrot (1984) and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) he presented readers with quests for the past that turn out to be problematic. His scepticism about the possibility of sketching any complete version of the past, and his determination to challenge received narratives of history, has, despite his strenuous protests, featured prominently in attempts to categorise him as a postmodernist writer.
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