Summary:
Julian Barne's The sense of an ending is a story on how one's past can reorganize itself to turn the present into a disorder. The story is based on the life of Tony Webster, spanning the journey from his adolescence to his middle-age. Tony has a friend named Adrian Finn with whom he has developed a friendship that promises to go the distance. Their life has a lot in store for them as they come to find it, the hard way though. The distinguished style of Julian Barne is the hallmark of this book that won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011.
The twisted ways of life has its way with their friendship as Adrian hits a wall of tragic events that leaves him distraught but alone due to the indifference of Tony along with his other peers. Tony himself never had any intentions of doing wrong to others but as he finds out that it is certainly not enough to keep you guarded from the discrepancies of life. As he enters his mid-life, happily with the happiness of a marriage and children, he is strained by the memories of actions he thought he never had committed. The story deals with Tony's struggle to keep up with his incompetence to strive to rise above what has caught hold of him from beneath.
Review:
The book is a flawless piece; a work of fiction that can dwindle the scope of the reality of life, we think exists abysmally. The book takes hold of you to bring you face to face with your shadows and unperturbedly glides you through to the other end of the tunnel. To say that the book is compelling would be a reiteration to point towards the brilliance of this book. The book will stay with you a long way even after you are through with reading it, as you would realize that this is just not a book you would finish reading and forget about it, you can't help it as its effects get etched on the caves of your sub-conscious.
The book is a must read as it descends from the mind of a writer at the peak of his abilities. The beauty in the darkness of this novel is left for the reader's mind to decipher. The touch to the present by the disfiguring psyche of the protagonist is what the breathtaking chapters immure. The book refuses to be cast in to the mould of an arty endeavor, the swiftness in the cleverly narrated passages are precise in their tacit ways. The hostile ambience that ensues from the conflicts between a vulnerable present and a belligerent past is narrated with a skill that radiates artistic iridescence.
This book is rooted to the torturous experiences of Tony Webster, the atrocities of a self-contradictory mind on the self makes you aware of the shadows that surrounds our existence. The sense of an ending is an epic tale that promises to take you nowhere far but within the invariable chaos through which our memory crawls, to be liberated from the 'truth' of our experiences.
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