History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

History

Speaker

Adrian Finn

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Knopf, 2011.

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In historical events great men—so called—are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Great man theory of history Nature of history History

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
War and Peace
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Война и мир (Voyna i mir) [War and Peace]. The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford UP, 2010, bk. 3, pt. 1, ch. 1.