A beautiful and elusive tale
2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 358; Issue: 9299 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(01)07165-3
ISSN1474-547X
Autores ResumoThe epigraph to Ian McEwan's new novel Atonement is taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, a work much preoccupied with the destructive nature of fantasy. Atonement has a similar wariness of the unbridled imagination; but it is aware of just how ironic this suspicion is, springing as it does from one of those professional fantasists we call novelists. Austen spots the irony, too: the heroine of Emma is a kind of novelist manqué who meddlingly fashions roles, plots, and alluring dramas for her friends, only to discover that there are hidden depths beyond her tidy narrative schemes. Briony Tallis, the scribbling, daydreaming young protagonist of McEwan's novel, will discover much the same.
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