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'Summer and Smoke in the Shadow of War: A young girl's misconception is the hinge of Ian McEwan's masterful Atonement', Boston Globe (Books), March 2002. Hattori, Noriyuki. 'Fikushon no "tsugunai"', Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation , 147:12, March 2002: 752.
Atonement is the story of how a young girl’s desire to be an adult, in addition to a vivid imagination, leads her to make a partially innocent mistake that has devastating consequences. The novel explores the distinction between childhood and adulthood, the nature of perspective, the pull of regret, and, perhaps most explicitly, the power of ...
Atonement, Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel spanning over sixty years, is a work of metafiction, or fiction that alludes to its own artificiality to emphasize and encourage readers to think about the nature of fiction. The novel intertwines a tale of grand romance, the horrors of World War II, and the destruction caused by a young girl’s mistake.
Jan 1, 2001 · A young girl’s imagination runs riot with far-reaching and devastating consequences, in Ian McEwan’s masterpiece of metafiction. On a hot day in the summer of 1934, 13-year-old Briony sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
- Ian Russell McEwan
- 2001
Examining issues of class antagonism, war and sexuality around a tragic misreading of reality, postmodern British author Ian McEwan wrote Atonement (2001), a highly intertextual work whose metanarrative is intended to explore life as text.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound–and ...
