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An introduction to the work of one of Britain's most admired fiction writers Understanding Ian McEwan provides a full discussion of the fiction written by one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's workadmired by critics for its polished, understated treatment of themes of aberrance and obsessionin the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the twentieth century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, The Child in Time, as the fulcrum for his discussion, Malcolm explores the themes of incest, espionage, moral self-flagellation, sexual fixation, political dysfunction, and personal antipathy evident in the other fiction. Malcolm notes that while critics traditionally view The Child in Time as McEwan's bold step into social engagement and hi

Author

Malcolm, David, 1952-

Publisher

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570034367

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities