![]() ![]() Also, both novels belong to the literary tradition of postmodernism, which implies a pessimistic view attitude toward life, given by the fact that in both novels the narrator/protagonist experiences a sense of loss. Both novels are pieces of British contemporary prose in English that belong to different authors and social and literary contexts but which can be stated to share a distinct treatment of the nature of both desire and guilt – desire and guilt are intertwined with memory in both novels, as we will see below. This essay deals with the work of the British postmodernist authors Jeanette Winterson and Julian Barnes and discusses how both the nature of desire and of guilt are intertwined with memory in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body (1992) and Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (2011). In your discussion make close reference to the texts. ![]() ![]() Discuss how both the nature of desire and of guilt are intertwined with memory in Winterson’s Written on the Body and in Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. ![]()
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