Unsettling postscripts and epilogues in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Ian McEwan’s Atonement by Armelle Parey

“…Both A. S. Byatt’s Possession, a Romance (1990) and Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) play games with their readers when, rather than being part of a deflating and decelerating process of conclusion, the closing pages prolong and encourage rather than put an end to “retroactive reading” and “retrospective patterning”. …”
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