| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-20页 |
| Julian Barnes the Author | 第8-10页 |
| The Sense of an Ending the Novel | 第10-12页 |
| Literature Review | 第12页 |
| Studies abroad | 第12-14页 |
| Studies in China | 第14-17页 |
| Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Thesis | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter One From Fiction to Truth: Reconstruction of Self-knowledge | 第20-32页 |
| 1.1 “Objective” Self Constructed in Reminiscence | 第20-24页 |
| 1.2 Deceptive Self Shaped in Self-justification | 第24-27页 |
| 1.3 Truer Self Reconstructed with Disclosure of the Hidden | 第27-32页 |
| Chapter Two Mist of Fiction and Truth: Predicaments of Self-knowledgeRevealed in Narrative | 第32-50页 |
| 2.1 Uncertainty of Memory Presented in Narrative Time | 第32-39页 |
| 2.2 Absence of Other Caused by Fixed Internal Focalization | 第39-44页 |
| 2.3 Subjectivity of Self Exposed through Unreliable Narrator | 第44-50页 |
| Chapter Three Endless Pursuit of Historical Truth: A Journey forSelf-rediscovery | 第50-59页 |
| 3.1 Introspection and Interaction of Individual Self | 第50-54页 |
| 3.2 Question about and Quest for Historical Truth | 第54-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
