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...blossoming love, an indecent letter, a brutal crime. Misconstrued, they set the stage for a tragic transgression—an unforgivable sin—that will haunt Briony Tallis, the remorseful heroine of Ian McEwan??s novel “Atonement,” for the rest of her life...
...question of how art can interpret the enormous societal shifts of Sept. 11—taken up in literature by Ian McEwan??s “Saturday” and Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”—is now addressed in film by Sally Potter’s “Yes” (on general release in the U.S. on June...
...Harvard Book Store-sponsored talk at the Brattle Theatre on April 1, McEwan placed the book in a long line of such novels-in-a-day, mentioning—among others—Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan??s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions...
...novel are laid bare, both in the shameless cheapness of that last sentence and in the overwhelming monotony of the lengthy list. Where the detailed research into psychiatry for Enduring Love and British soldiers’ letters for Atonement were seamlessly contained by the narratives, in Saturday McEwan??s efforts become obtrusive. The medical terms used to describe the operations Perowne performs are obviously necessary to any genuine effort to record what is happening, but often these terms swamp the scenes themselves, smothering the prose with a desperate anxiety for accuracy...
...interested in the “roads, byways and lost lanes” of academic research, though he suspects most academics aren’t either. Some authors he will be lecturing about in his next class—among them Bellow, Martin Amis, and Ian McEwan??may even visit the classroom...