Briony's stand against Oblivion: the making of fiction in Ian McEwan's Atonement.(Critical Essay)

For a drawn out time Ian McEwan found himself trapped in the part of a sensational writer caricatured by dint of the British press as Ian Macabre and the Clapham Shocker The stories he wrote at the beginning of his writing career--First delight in Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories (1978)--as well as his first sum of two units novels--The Cement Garden (1979) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981)--described in clinical detail the sexual and social aberrations of adolescent mentalities whose voices then proffered him "a certain kind of rhetorical freedom." (1) It is