Steen Christiansen reviewed The Sense of an Ending by Kermode, Frank
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4 stars
Kermode's classic book not only on the apocalyptic but also of modernism and the difference between them. Written before the phrase of postmodernism, it is evident that Kermode paves the way for a better understanding of what being new after modernism means. One of Kermode's most compelling and problematic arguments is that nothing is wholly new (I agree) and if it were, it would simply be noise and therefore meaningless (I disagree, noise is a constant part of making things new. All we need are new modes of appreciating the noise).
Kermode's classic book not only on the apocalyptic but also of modernism and the difference between them. Written before the phrase of postmodernism, it is evident that Kermode paves the way for a better understanding of what being new after modernism means. One of Kermode's most compelling and problematic arguments is that nothing is wholly new (I agree) and if it were, it would simply be noise and therefore meaningless (I disagree, noise is a constant part of making things new. All we need are new modes of appreciating the noise).
