![]() Not consider this content professional or citable. Professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors. ![]() Providing this content as a courtesy until we can offer a It has been translated into eight languages. It won the 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Critics noted McEwan's elegant prose, careful dissection of daily life, and interwoven themes. The book, published in February 2005 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and in April in the United States, was critically and commercially successful. (McEwan 2005) One indicator of this ongoing. Though intelligent and well read, Perowne feels he has little influence over political events. ABSTRACT Through an analysis of Ian McEwans novel Atonement (2001), this essay considers the potentialities and limitations of narrative, and of representation more generally, as means of capturing and conveying the accelerated and intensely traumatic character of mechanized warfare. The main character, though outwardly successful, still struggles to understand meaning in his life, exploring personal satisfaction in the post-modern, developed world. ![]() The novel explores one's engagement with the modern world and the meaning of existence in it. To understand his character's world-view, McEwan spent time with a neurosurgeon. As he goes about his day, he ponders the meaning of the protest and the problems that inspired it however, the day is disrupted by an encounter with a violent, troubled man. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of errands and pleasures, culminating in a family dinner in the evening. It is set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. ![]() Saturday (2005) is a novel by Ian McEwan. ![]()
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