Books are where things are explained. Literature as the new repository of meaning in Flaubert´s Parrot (Julian Barnes) and Atonement (Ian McEwans)

Abstract

Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan, the two well-known writers whose novels Flaubert 's Parrot and Atonement respectively I intend to base this dissertation on, are mostly widely read and internationally recognized authors of contemporary British fiction and have already joined the ranks of classic authors of British literature