Násilí, vinna a válka ve vybraných dílech Iana McEwana

Makovcová, Monika

THESIS ABSTRACT Ian McEwan belongs to one of the prominent contemporary British authors. His work offers a wide range of unsettling themes, social and political commentary but also a remarkable literary experience. McEwan gains the attention of readers across the globe, making him an important international author as well. The success of his unsettling novels is a result of collective societal fascination with trauma, which is a phenomenon deserving attention in itself. This thesis focuses on three novels written within one decade, in the period when McEwan's work was highly academically acclaimed. These novels are Enduring Love (1997), Atonement (2001), and Saturday (2005). Attention is paid to the reappearing themes of violence, guilt, war and literature and their particular role in the narrative. While violence, guilt, and war are themes explicitly present in the novels, their function on the metaphorical, symbolic and implicit level is far more significant and offers a brand new level of understanding of McEwan's ideas and way of thinking about given issues. Additionally, literature is treated as a separate subject as it is precisely literature itself that McEwan comments on, through his complex narrative strategies. This thesis thus focuses also on these strategies, usage of the mentioned themes, and...

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