朱利安·巴恩斯在小说《终结的意义》中借助于书写平庸人物的真实心理发展历程,阐述了记忆、历史、真实三者之间的复杂关系,展示了对终结之后历史真实找寻的意义。在末日启示下,小说的叙事虚实难辨,记忆亦真亦幻;终结之后对意义和真实的找寻引发了对危机和历史的思考;而在情感和目的论的驱使下,对历史真实的找寻似乎必然终结。即便如此,对历史真实的找寻/书写依然具有重要的意义和价值。 Julian Barnes elaborates the complex relationship between memory, history and truth by means of the true psychic development process of writing mediocre characters in the novel “the significance of the end”, and shows the meaning of the historical truth finding after the end . Under the inspiration of the last days, the story of the novel is hard to distinguish between the actual situation and the true one. The search for meaning and truth after the end triggered the thinking on the crisis and the history. Under the guidance of emotion and teleology, Seems to be the end. Even so, the search for / history of the true remains of great significance and value.