A releitura da memória, da culpa e da redenção em Reparação de Ian McEwan

Abstract

Ian McEwan establishes the problematic of written memory and how to rework it as fiction in Atonement. This novel was published in 2001 from the report of a World War II nurse and 77 year-old professional writer, Briony Tallis, who, in a deliberate act, creates a tragedy that affects the fate of three people and seeks to atone her mistake when writing a novel and recounting a crime committed. This metaromance uses the intertextuality and dialogues with other English works such as the ones from Jane Austen, Henry Fielding and Virginia Woolf resuming characteristics of their characters. The meaning of the word “atonement”, that gives title to the novel, is another point to be considered by the broad sense that the verb “to atone” has. The power of literature to represent and interpret the world would be the main theme of this work, when you intend to discuss the possibility of recreating the world from what is written.