《赎罪》是英国当代作家伊恩·麦克尤恩的代表性作品之一,是一部具有自反性的元小说。这部小说以隐性的指示不断暴露出小说所具有的自我意识,并在小说结尾处由叙述者直接揭示了小说本身的虚构性。《赎罪》中高度的自我意识实际上在阅读过程中并不易为读者所注意,但这种自我意识实际上则暗示了小说文体所面临的危机。 “Atonement” is one of the representative works of the British contemporary writer Ian McEwan, is a self-reflexive meta novels. This novel constantly exposes the self-consciousness that the novel possesses with implicit instructions. At the end of the novel, the narrator directly reveals the fictionality of the novel itself. The high degree of self-awareness in “Atonement” is actually not easily noticeable to the readers during the process of reading. However, this self-consciousness actually implies the crisis faced by the novel style.