Corriere della Sera | Paolo Campa

“At a certain point in one of the most beautiful and painful novels of recent literature, Atonement by Ian McEwan, the co-protagonist Robbie Turner writes a love letter to his beloved Cecilia. Romantic and polite, the words addressed to the girl are only the fair copy of what Robbie truly feels, which he had described just before in another letter (later discarded) filled with obscene, lustful expressions. It is here that Atonement takes off: Robbie mixes up the pages, Cecilia accidentally receives the first letter — the scandalous one — and is delighted. Happier, perhaps, than she would have been had she received the other…”

Article byNicola H. Cosentino