European Journal of Business and Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No.6 , pp 16-25, September 2013. P.P. 16 - 25 URL: http:/ / www.ejbss.com/ r ecent.aspx ISSN: 2235 -767X EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 16 A TRUE SURVEY ON ‘ARTHUR & GEORGE’ BY JULIAN BARNES FROM HISTORI OGRAPHI C METAFICTIONAL THEORIES BY LINDA HUTCHEON Shalizeh Hajian (Corresponding Author) : MA, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign languages, Central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Tel: +98-912-6025045 E-mail: shlzhhajian@yahoo.com Jalal Sokhanvar PhD, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign languages, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Tina Takapouie PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign languages, Central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran ABSTRACT his investigation analyzes Julian Barnes’ ‘Arthur & George’ under the light of historiographic metafictional theories by Linda Hutcheon. Since the most important parts of the historiographic metafictional process also are noticeable essentials in Julian Barnes’ works, the ambivalence and indeterminacy of history were investigated in this study. The concepts of real and unreal truth, with their own historical contextualities and inter- contextualities in the literary approach, are paralleled to scrutinize the objective and subjective facts. Reality and imagery in the novel confront each other and, ever so often, they extend beyond each other in a way that their borders cannot be set with certainty. Thus, the researcher tries to display the precise and appropriate state line between them in their objective and subjective situation as plainly as possible. The researcher acknowledges that the two objective and subjective worlds should arrive together in a parallel method and carry the real truth, which has been exposed between the real and invented or fictional situations. The essay seeks the structure of authenticity and factual information all the way through the play of imagination, and it attempts to illustrate the line between realism and thoughts. Keywords: discourse, discursive formation, historiography, metafiction T