The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction Book by Frank Kermode

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction is a 1967 non-fiction book by British literary scholar Frank Kermode, which argues that literary fictions, particularly those about the apocalypse, provide the stories and frameworks by which humans make sense of their own lives and time. Based on his 1965 Mary Flexner Lectures, Kermode examines how writers use apocalyptic narratives and plot structures to impose meaning and order on chaotic existence and the human experience of mortality.