Abstract
Ian McEwan, together with Martin Amis, is now the best-known and controversial contemporary British novelist. Atonement is regarded as the best of McEwan books and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It displays features of modernism and postmodernism, with the application of stream of consciousness, multiple voices, montage and flashbacks, becoming increasingly experimental in form.
Highlights
Atonement is a successful combination of traditional realistic narrative, self-conscious devices, and deconstructionism, presented with modern experimental techniques which practically enhance its aesthetic beauty
Atonement is influenced by two important writers, Henry James and Virginia Wolf, both of whom are wellknown for their art of dealing with points of view and psychological analysis
Point of view “signifies the way a story gets told—the mode established by an author by means of which the reader is presented with the characters, dialogue, actions, setting, and the events which constitute the narrative in a work of fiction [1]”
Summary
Atonement is a successful combination of traditional realistic narrative, self-conscious devices, and deconstructionism, presented with modern experimental techniques which practically enhance its aesthetic beauty. The novel’s magnificence lies in the author’s inheritance, and in his innovation and subversion of tradition. The experimental techniques, such as the employment of point of view, narrative montage and flashbacks, make the novel a narrative of great power
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