“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.” ~ Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending.

Dr Angana Moitra, Faculty at Jindal School of Language and Literature, OP Jindal Global University joins me to discuss the broad themes covered in ‘The Sense of an Ending’, the spoiler free plot of the book and the idea reexamination of one’s own life through the lens of fiction.

During the course of this conversation, we explore the characters and the emotions we felt as we read (and re-read) the book ‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes.

Notes: The walk referred in the conversation pertains to Half Walks, a passion project of my friends Chandan Gomes and Mahavir Singh Bisht. A note about the walk is covered in this blog post.

Correction: I used the word vindictive instead of vindication somewhere in the podcast.