Nizhnevartovsk Philological BulletinNizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin2500-1795Nizhnevartovsk State University89115Research ArticlePROBLEMATIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT IN JULIAN BARNES’ POSTMODERNISTIC NOVEL «THE SENSE OF AN ENDING» (2011)BerdnikovaI. VCandidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of the English language-GushchinaT. A5th year student of the Department of the English language Omsk State Pedagogical University-Omsk State Pedagogical University1506201721454926112021Copyright © 2017, Berdnikova I.V., Gushchina T.A.2017The article discloses philosophic aspects in Julian Barnes’ novel “The Sense of an Ending” (2011). The article defines the peculiarities of Julian Barnes’ writing style and the main theme of his works. The interrelation of categories of love and responsibility is under consideration as well. The article touches upon philosophic categories of time, memory, love, personal responsibility, and ethical problems as well. This course is accompanied with the consideration of interconnection of categories “love” and “responsibility”. Beyond that point stylistic devices, which the author applies to, are investigated as means of transfer the underlying meaning. In the article special attention is paid to such features of postmodern literature as multilevel structure of a text, playfulness, allusions, citation and self - citation. In the article there are used the allusions on works of such famous philosophers of XX century as Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Recoursing to these philosophers’ views on the ethical problem of suicide, in the article is made an attempt to know possible causes of hero’s suicide. Furthermore, in the article there are presented the speculations on the genre the novel “The Sense of an Ending: a philosophical novel and a psychological detective. In conclusion there could be identified philosophy in the novel. The object of the article presents typical features of postmodern literature, which serve for disclosing the main themes of XX century philosophy. The aim of the article is to investigate the influence of Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophic ideas on disclosing the main theme in the novel. The scientific innovation and topicality of the work present that the novel “The Sense of an Ending” is the interlacement of subtle psychologism with deep philosophical implication, and represents the transition to new stage of literature XXI century - metamodernistic literature. The continuous sampling method and method of a contextual analysis are used in the article. The result of the article is Julian Barnes’ postmodernistic approach to the solution the ethical problem of suicide in the novel: it is impossible to have the only one right solution. The results may be used in free electives of literature XXI century, in lectures literature XX - XXI centuries, in seminars of stylistics and text interpretation. In this novel philosophy serves to solve the ethical problem, and presents the answer, what is a man.postmodernphilosophyresponsibilitylovememorycitationan ethical problemпостмодернизмфилософияответственностьлюбовьпамятьцитированиеэтическая проблема[Barnes J. 2011. The Sense of an Ending. Moscow: Vintage.][Барнс Дж. 2013. Предчувствие конца. Москва: Эксмо-Пресс.][Басинский П. 2016. Предчувствие Барнса. URL: https://rg.ru/2016/11/28/reg-cfo/dzhulian-barns-iarlyki-na-literaturu-naveshivaiut-kritiki-a-ne-pisateli.html (2016. 28 ноября).][Булатов А. 2017. Размышления о жизни. Эссе. Москва: Издательские решения.][Витгенштейн Л. 1958. Логико-философский трактат. Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы.][Журавлев С. Постмодернизм в литературе. URL: www.proza.ru/2010/07/05/891 (2017. 01 мая).][Ницше Ф.В. 2014. По ту сторону добра и зла. Прелюдия к философии будущего. Санкт-Петербург: ИГ Лениздат.][Сысоева Ю.Н. 2015. Формы художественной рецепции философии А. Камю в романе Дж. Барнса «Предчувствие Конца». URL: http://izvestia.vspu.ru/avtor/5683 891 (2017. 01 мая).]