ABSTRACT
To write a conclusion on Julian Barnes’s creative conversations with memory, although those might be significant for further transcultural dialogues, is a rather contradictory issue, since the writer tends to deny the existence of conclusions. Much more in life than in writing. Nonetheless, this chapter acknowledges the importance to come to terms with the multilayered and contradictory performance of memory observed in his works and developed throughout this volume. Starting with Barnes’s apology for an upside down novel, it aims at indicating new perspectives and at tracing several other possible directions for interdisciplinary academic approach towards cultural memory studies in literature.
