TREATMENT OF TIME IN THE NOVELS ‘ATONEMENT’ BY IAN MCEWAN AND ‘THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’ BY KAZUO ISHIGURO
TREATMENT OF TIME IN THE NOVELS ‘ATONEMENT’ BY IAN MCEWAN AND ‘THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’ BY KAZUO ISHIGURO

Summary/Abstract: The innocence of youth is cunning, and imagination is often mistaken for truth. ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan transcends the barriers of perspective, and makes you second guess the reliability of your narrator. It is a complex novel, as well as the chronology, the time of the narrative story, the narrative jumps in it. Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’, a subtle masterpiece about the private agonies of an ageing butler is hardly unknown but sometimes you find a piece of writing so well executed, so moving and so perceptive about the lives many of us lead that you can’t help praising it to anyone not quick-witted enough to look busy. The treatment of time in these two novels is interestingly dealt with and an issue to consider.

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