The Ethical Aspect of Constituting History in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
The Ethical Aspect of Constituting History in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the ethical aspect of the process of constituting history that is problematized in Julian Barnes‟s A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. The reduction mechanism of interpreting in the sole act of history/truth and fiction as labeling systems of a certain culture questions the nature of history/truth as the object of our knowledge. The ethical character of this reduction is connected to the question of the relation of power and knowledge that Barnes particularly provokes in his History of the World.

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