줄리안 반즈의 『내 말 좀 들어봐』 - 독백의 과거재현 가능성

Julian Barnes" Talking It Over: The Past Representative Possibility of Monologue

&nbsp;&nbsp;This thesis examines Julian Barnes&quot; understanding on the possibility of past representation focusing on his novel Talking It Over. This work suggests past representation&quot;s relativity. Three protagonists had witnessed the same event but their respective stories about the event were all different. In addition, they do not talk to each other even in a situation where they have to and unlike the original title, the characters tell their stories, not to each other, but to the readers. Likewise, the fact that there are various stories of the same event is because their stories are based on their distinctive memories and talent of interpretations.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Barnes showed that there can be errors when a past event is been represented even though the event had been directly seen and witnessed by the reporter himself/herself and not just a reported memory. Among these characters, he sets up Gillian&quot;s occupation as a restorer where he suggests incompleteness of past representation through restorer&quot;s occupation. Furthermore, the character Oliver reads Shostakovich&quot;s memoir. Shostakovich is said to record only what he has seen. At the same time, he says that in Russia there&quot;s a proverb saying; "People lie as if they have seen." This proverb implies this novel&quot;s theme. That is, although people say that they are telling only what they have seen, it&quot;s just an attend to represent and report the actual even. Beyond that, there are always lies containing in it as one&quot;s interpretation and ego are intervened within one&quot;s words. In the end, the author concluded that representation of the past cannot but be expressed diversely, depending on the person representing it. For this reason, past representation is not objective or absolute but relative.