![]() :This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback shows how the book's accomplishment is to provide a Jungian analysis of the "shadow" of wealth: the primitive meanings attached to debt deriving from ancient cultural configurations of a proper balance in the order of things. The narrative presents the manner in which Shostakovich’s mind is possessed by the horrors, fears, and anxieties of both his traumatic experiences and post-traumatic recollections. The narrative focuses on Shostakovich’s constant sense of fear and intense panic at three decisive points of life when he finds himself in humiliating conversations with Power. ![]() ![]() By presenting three stages of the central character’s traumatic experiences, the omniscient narrator represents trauma’s continuous impact on Shostakovich’s mind through his own retrospective perspective. Focusing on the artistic life of worldly, well-known Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, Barnes’s narrative shows how trauma, as a dominant political apparatus, is systematically implemented by Stalin’s State of Terror or Power and how it dramatically impacts the. ![]() This essay explores the function of trauma as a political apparatus in Julian Barnes’s latest novel The Noise of Time (2016). ![]()
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