Abstract:

Ian McEwan is contemporarily one of the most famous writers in British. His writing style is too special to favor both the audience and the experts in writing. Among all his works, the novel Atonement is the representative of McEwan’s. This novel combined fiction with reality and metafiction is about understanding and responding to the need for atonement. This essay tries to explore the uniqueness of this novel through demonstration and analysis of its postmodernist characteristics, the fictional and realistic components in the novel, and its metafictional coda. In this way, it aims to give a full display of McEwan’s writing talents and help readers to better understand his works.

Keywords: Atonement; Ian McEwan; metafiction; fiction; reality

摘  要：

伊恩•麦克尤恩是当代英国文坛最具影响力的作家之一。他独特的艺术风格,深受专业评委的青睐和广大观众的喜爱。《赎罪》是麦克尤恩的代表作，是其使用虚实结合以及元小说创作手法的一部代表作品。本文试图通过示范和分析此小说的后现代特征，虚构与现实之间关系和元小说结尾来探索这部小说的独特性。通过这种方式，旨在充分表现麦克尤恩的写作才华，帮助读者很好地理解他的作品。

关键词： 赎罪；伊恩•麦克尤恩；元小说；虚构；现实

1Introduction
1.1 Introduction of the Author and Novel
Ian McEwan is one of the most influential writers of English literature. He is born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studies at the University of Sussex, where he receives a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He receives his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is resolute, quick thinking, with tireless quest spirit. His works are short stories, mostly so bizarre, absurd, be called “black comedy”. He wins Man Booker Prize nominations four times, and in 2001, he publishes Atonement, also wins the 2002 Man Booker Prize nominations, which is made into an Oscar-winning film, and the special writing tactic that we are now going to study.