![]() ![]() ![]() The repetitions of the trauma – first with the furtive reading of an obscene letter addressed to the older sister and then with the love scene in the library – mark the gradual prevailing of the imaginary on the real, until the final discovery of the fictionality of the whole story. ![]() ![]() Starting from Lacan’s theory on the gaze, this article analyses how the traumatic scene observed by the younger sister, unbeknownst to the elder, serves as a mythopoetic device and it is at the origin of the mise en abîme on which the Chinese box structure of the novel stands. The last pages, in particular, because of their manipulation of the events, make the reader the final witness. 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. He specializes in the mental life of one. Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. The centrality of the gaze, the voyeuristic attitude of the characters, and the multiple perspectives force the reader to return to scenes already “seen”, recalling, in the end, the reader’s own gaze from outside the text. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation among other topics than Ian McEwan. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) is a novel structured around some key episodes that gradually shift the reader’s attention to the more self-reflective elements of the text. ![]()
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