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As the title might suggest, *Departures* is, above all, a book of “goodbyes”: In this “final” book, Julian Barnes once again speaks to us readers about the central themes of his writing—memory, recollections, and the endless efforts we expend to reconstruct the past exactly “as it was”—but he also recounts the poignant story of his own illness, detailing every fascinating aspect and stage of it.

But *Farewells* is not limited to just these themes.

Right in the middle of this autobiographical narrative, he also weaves in the stories of his friends Stephen and Jean, whom he knew from his school days at Oxford—a forty-year-long story with a huge “gap” in the middle.

Both as a narrator-witness and as someone who profoundly shaped their lives and was forced to bear the moral responsibility for it.

We observe that this intriguing story—which also carries stylistic echoes from his novels *I Don’t Love You* and *Love, Etc.*—serves as a bridge within the textual integrity of *Departures*.

*Departures*, a text knitted from countless anecdotes, sociological observations, and medical insights strung one after another, in addition to direct literary forms such as essays, short stories, diaries, and memoirs, Drawing on Marcel Proust’s famous madeleine, the text sets out to explore the inner workings of IDOAs—that is, “Involuntary Autobiographical Memories”—while asserting, in passing, that the author is not a Proustian. In doing so, it thoroughly examines this complex concept and scrutinizes the validity criteria of numerous cases that could serve as examples of it.

The story of a departure with no return [Departure(s)] unfolds on two distinct planes, and *Departure*—which the author describes as a “universe that does its job,” that searing secret some of us recall from Baudelaire’s “bitter knowledge”—shares this with readers, offering us a final book that is at once poignant, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining.

Product Name: *Departures* Product Code: 9786053148234 Author: Julian Barnes Publication Year: 2026 Cover Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Paper Type: 2nd-grade pulp Translator:

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