Open AccessCollections in Atonement, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Bring up the bodies, and Cloud Atlas: A prelude
Author(s) -
Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2358-3428
pISSN - 1516-4039
DOI - 10.5752/p.2358-3428.2020v24n52p502-527
Subject(s) - depiction , atonement , atlas (anatomy) , aesthetics , art , cloud computing , literature , history , art history , philosophy , law , political science , theology , paleontology , biology
I will read the fascination with collectors and collecting in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies (2012), and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) regarding at least two theoretical questions. Can collected things and objects ever assist in the imagination of more satisfying social roles and identities? Can collecting material traces lead to an accurate or truthful depiction of the past-present-future life writing? Those novels represent one of the most popular and critically acclaimed examples of the widespread interest in collecting apparent in contemporary British fiction.