Margaret Atwood is one of the most prominent figures in modern Canadian literature. Her works have enjoyed continued success throughout the English-speaking world, many have been translated into other languages. Comprehension (1972) is one of the writer's early novels, thanks to which she, a young but already famous poet, has gained a strong reputation as a talented, original prose writer. Margaret's Novels Atwood invite the reader to an honest and frank conversation about the fate of women - our contemporary. Atwood's heroes are ordinary Canadians, shown in their everyday, everyday life, but behind these unremarkable destinies, sometimes tragicomic, there is a drama of an entire generation - a drama of loneliness, alienation, general indifference and misunderstanding.