The Novel as Atonement

Photo: Atonement, dir. Joe Wright

It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.  And only in a story could you enter into these different minds and show how they had an equal value.

Ian McEwan, Atonement

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