1616 (Oct 2011)
«Atonement», Novel to Film
Abstract
This article develops a comparative reading of British novelist Ian Mcewan’s novel Atonement, published by Jonathan Cape (Random House) in 2001, and its cinematic adaptation, released six years later (with the same title) and directed by Joe wright with a film script by Christopher Hampton. This analysis attends to the adaptation of the metafictional aspects of the novel, which thematize its process of enunciation, and which are echoed in the autoreflexive and self-conscious filmic discourse. Special attention will be paid to two transformations that the film adaptation carries out on the novelistic hipotext, and which respond to the complex temporality of the story and to its use of multiperspectivism.
