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Atonement by Ian Mcewan | Mcewan's Metafictional novel | British 21st Century Novel

A full Class on Atonement by McEwan. Introduction: 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. Atonement is a bildungsroman novel by Ian McEwan . It is a complex text that holds a story within a story. Atonement is a tale of love, loss, and separation , at times set against the backdrop of the Second World War . It was also made into a successful 2007 film starring Keira Knightly, James McAvoy, and Saoirse Ronan.  Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize f

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