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feel that perhaps I have sabotaged this book somewhat as I read it directly after finishing Love In the Time of Cholera, and perhaps in retrospect should have read a poetry book or some nonfiction in between.
Clearly anything I would have read after finishing a Masterpiece would pale in comparison but I decided that the critical raves this book had received and high praise from people around me should be enough to encourage me to see it through to the end.


Here is why I found this book lacking without giving too much actual plot away to those who would want to read it themselves.


I found all of the characters completely devoid of any true personality or any reason I should care or feel connected to them, The details described in the book do a lot for physical surroundings but we know nothing of Cecila except she went to college and chain smokes, so I don't particularly care about anything that happens to her, besides the fact that much of her life is lived outside what information the book provides.
Briony is a terrible child, a narcissistic teenager, and and at last a harmless grandmother who I don't especially care about at any of these three points in her life.
The only character with the least bit of humanity seems to be Robbie who is still somewhat confined to his role as the "victim", All the lovely descriptions of ponds and hospital wards and French wartorn villages could not make up for the fact that none of these characters were the slightest bit interesting to me or seemed to connect to anything.
They simply floated through long locational descriptions being powerless to the world around them and unfortunately for me I didn't needpages to get that point.
It could have easily been accomplished as a short story or novella, I just kept feeling that the book had all this great detail but didn't focus it on anything that it shoud have,

I know this may sound exceedingly harsh and once again I do chalk some of this up to reading Atonement directly after a much better novel it had no hope in eclipsing or even paralleling in its structure but I also know how quickly and easily I fall in love with characters.
How quickly I can get pulled into a good story and I sincerely feel that although I wouldn't call this book a complete waste, that my time would have been much better spent elsewhere.
There are many reviews already of this book, and I did wonder whether the world needed any more, But I disagree so strongly with some of the opinions expressed that I'm afraid I have to exercise my right to reply, Two things in particular stand out,

Let me deal with the simpler one first, Some people seem appalled that the author is putting the guilt for this dreadful tragedy on the shoulders of a young girl, She didn't know what she was doing, they say she was too young to understand the import of her actions, and we shouldn't hold her responsible.
Well, it seems to me that this is completely beside the point, The novel, we finally learn, has been written by the girl herself, She's giving herself the blame for what happened, She's evidently spent her whole life wondering why she behaved the way she did, and she still doesn't really know, She's just trying to get the story as straight as she can, mainly so that she can understand it herself, and I found her efforts extremely moving.
If anyone is claiming that people don't behave this way, all I can say is that their view of human nature is so different from mine that it'll be hard to have a meaningful conversation on the subject.


So now the second and more controversial part, Many reviewers dislike the postmodernist aspects, They complain that McEwan is taking a perverse pleasure in tricking the reader into a view of the story which is finally revealed as incorrect that he's playing the unreliable narrator card out of sheer willfulness.
Again, I completely disagree. I don't think these aspects of the book are irrelevant or peripheral I think they're at the very core of it, and are what make it a great piece of literature.
McEwan shows us a girl who becomes an author precisely because she wants to expiate the dreadful feelings of guilt she has suffered all her life.
He lets her explain how it happened, in what we eventually discover is a book within a book, And the truly awful thing is that she can't do it, She cops out with a fake happy ending, because she still can't face what she did,

I don't think this is a trick I think he's saying something about the very nature of writing, Many, many writers are like Briony, They write to absolve themselves of their guilt, but in the end they don't say what they want to say, It's too horrible to write down, They skirt around the issues, and end up presenting them in a more favourable light, If they're lucky, they may finally reach an age when they are so far removed from what happened that they can tell the story straight, This is what Briony does in the postscript, and I don't find it farfetched, To take just one example, the first I happen to think of, look at Marguerite Duras, All her life, she kept thinking about her first love affair, and it coloured most of what she wrote, It was only when she was nearlythat she could set it down as L'Amant,

Before the events of the fountain, Briony was indeed just a little girl all she could write was the amusingly mediocre Arabella.
Afterwards, she had something that was worth saying, though it took a long time to figure out how to do that, When she'd completed her task, she was able to get back to the one she was engaged in when she was interrupted: I love the circular structure, which ends with Arabella being stagedyears late.
Of the many infuriating changes in the movie version, I think I was most annoyed by the removal of this key scene,

Wood burns, observes Monty Python's logician, as he gives an example of an incorrect syllogism therefore, all that burns is wood, Similarly, the fact that much trickery is postmodern does not imply that all postmodernism is trickery, This is a great and heartfelt novel,
Atonement, Ian McEwan

Atonement is aBritish metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement.


Set in three time periods,England, Second World War England and France, and presentday England, it covers an upperclass girl's halfinnocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.


Abstract: On a summer day in, thirteenyearold Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant.


But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions "Atonement" follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.


Characters: Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincy, Jackson Quincy, Perriot Quincy, Paul Marshall, Robbie Turner,

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز سی و یکم ماه مارس سالمیلادی

عنوان: تاوان اثر: ایان مک اوان مترجم: مصطفی مفیدی نشر تهران گام نودرص شابکچاپ دیگر: تهران نیلوفردرص شابکموضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا سدهم

رویدادهای تاوان در سالهای پس از

جنگ جهانی دوم سپری و در این میان به یادمانهای سالهای جنگ نیز میپردازد فيلمنامه تاوان را کریستوفر همپتون از همین رمان به قلم ايان مک اوان اقتباس کرده رمانی که در سالمیلادی منتشر شد و پس از قرار گرفتن در لیست پرفروشترینهای آن روز به منزلت مک اوان افزود و وی را در کنار مارتین امیس و جولین بارنز به عنوان یکی از سه رمان نویس برتر و زنده ی اهل بریتانیا به خوانشگران شناساند

داستان دارای سه بخش است

بخش نخست بلندترین بخش داستان است این بخش خانواده ی اشرافی تالیس را در سالمیلادی نشانه رفته توسط براینی دختر سیزده ساله ی خانواده که عاشق نویسندگی است بازگویی میشود این خانواده در انتظار رسیدن پسر خانواده یعنی لئون و دوست او مارشال هستند براینی برای پیشواز از برادرش میخواهد نمایشنامه ای که خود آن را نگاشته به همراه پسرعموها و دخترعموها اجرا کنند او برای علاقه به داستان همگی رویدادهای پیرامون خود را با توجه به خیال خویش بازگو میکند

بخش دوم در سالمیلادی رابی با شهادت براینی پس از سه سال از زندان به شرط شرکت در جنگ آزاد شده است سیسیلیا دوره ی پرستاری را بگذرانده و با خانواده خود رابطه ی خود را بریده است این دو از راه نامه با یکدیگر در تماس هستند و سیسیلیا به رابی قول داده در انتظار او بماند در یایان این بخش رابی به همراه ارتش در دانکرک گرفتار شده و دلمشغول عقب نشینی هستند

بخش سوم داستان براینی در حال گذراندن دوره پرستاری در بیمارستانی در لندن است او حالا دریافته که رابی به دخترعمویش تجاوز کرده و برای شهادت اشتباه خود دچار عذاب وجدان شده است از این روی تحصیل در دانشگاه را رها و به تاوان اشتباهش پرستار شده او در انتهای این بخش رابی و سیسیلیا را میبیند که کنار یکدیگر زندگی میکنند و به آنها قول میدهد که به جبران اشتباهی که مرتکب شده به نزد خانواده برود و شهادت خود را پس بگیرد اما در پایان داستان به گونه دیگری پیش میرود و خوانشگر را شگفت زده میکند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی هجری خورشیدی هجری خورشیدی ا, شربیانی.