As Manipulações Narrativas em Atonement de Ian McEwan

This article discusses the narrative manipulations which have been established as a typical trait in postmodern, contemporary literature, through which literary tradition has been criticized and reformulated by the production of new works of a hybrid genre which are also self-reflexive in respect to its acknowledging its own status as fiction. An example of such a work is the novel Atonement by English writer Ian McEwan (2003), which has been chosen here as the object of our analysis. Consciously inserted within the literary production of the so-called post modernity, Atonement both adopts and challenges, in an apparently paradoxical manner, various conventions, such as realist mimesis and modernist aestheticism, while combining them with some postmodern literary ones, so as to match historical, memoiristic, autobiographic and metafictional discourses in order to create a multifaceted novel which allows reflections upon the relationship between reality and fiction, as it continues the vigorous and ingenious present-day literary production