LEVELS OF LIFE
Sudha Devi Nayak
Julian Barnes’s “Levels of Life” is a meditation on love, loss and grief that touches us with an immediacy that is overwhelming. Martin Fletcher of The Independent has said “Anyone who has loved and suffered loss or just suffered should read this book, and reread it and reread it” and The Times has said, “To read it is a privilege. To have written it is astonishing”. Indeed it requires tremendous courage and tremendous grief, even self-effacement to bare your soul before the world. Yet it is grief contained, written in a style that is measured with elegant restraint, honesty and truthfulness. Grief is the great denominator, freeing people from hierarchy; there are no heroes in grief. There is the singularity in grief with Barnes saying, “One grief throws no light upon another” but also the commonality as none of us can escape its true pangs.
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