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Programação & Caderno de Resumossobre a voz que domina cada uma destas novas narrativas. Brionypassa de “leitora” a escritora, para mais tarde revelar uma nova“leitura”: aquela que poderia ter sido a verdadeira, mas que aorevelar-se ficcional, leva o leitor de Reparação não só a reconstruira história a partir das várias narrativas que se formaram, masprincipalmente a “reparar” a sua própria leitura.Memory and forgetfulness in Ian McEwan’s AtonementMail Marques de Azevedo (UNIANDRADE)On reaching the fourth section of McEwan’s novel Atonement,entitled “London 1999”, the reader is surprised by the disclosurethat the preceding sections are actually fictional memories writtenby its protagonist Briony Tallis, who reconstructs the circumstancessurrounding a momentous event, in 1935. Having misidentifiedher sister’s lover, Robbie Turner, as the man who has sexuallyassaulted her cousin Lola, 13-year-old Briony has to live withthe guilt of her false testimony. In an attempt to atone for whatshe later calls her “crime”, she re-creates past events, in orderto allow the young lovers, who are both killed in the war, “tosurvive and flourish”. The late revelation of embedding – Briony’smemoirs within McEwan’s fiction – provides the frame for ouranalysis which focuses on the role of memory as its process ofcreation. Using as support material James Olney’s Memory andNarrative, and Maurice Halbwachs’s On Collective Memory, differentfunctions of memory are examined in the text, in order to providea new path for our understanding of the narrative. Briony’s storyas confession implies self-accusation and the function of memoryin the Augustinean sense of confrontation with one’s inner self.Memory as a relationship in time and the ideal possibility ofattaining its antithesis – forgetfulness offers oblivion in answerto the protagonist’s desire for redemption. Furthermore, the differentaspects of Briony’s memories- the direct testimony of her diaryand her well orchestrated memoirs, allow the reader to pass averdict granting or not granting her the desired forgiveness.124