Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.
Biography
One of the most distinguished novelists of his generation, Ian McEwan was born in England and spent much of his childhood traveling with his father, an army officer stationed in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa. He graduated from Sussex University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature and received his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
McEwan burst upon the literary scene in the mid-1970s with two short story collections that highlighted with equal clarity his early predilection for disturbing, somewhat shocking subject matter and his dazzling prose style. Similarly, his 1978 debut novel, The Cement Garden, attracted as much attention for its unsettling storyline as for its stylistic brilliance. But even though his early work was saturated with deviant sex, violence, and death (so much so that he earned the nickname "Ian MacAbre"), he was never dismissed as a mere purveyor of cheap thrills. In fact, two of his most provocative works (The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love) were shortlisted for major U.K. awards.
As he has matured, McEwan has moved away from disquieting themes like incest, sadism, and psychotic obsession to explore more introspective human dramas. In an interview with The New Republic he described his literary evolution in this way:
"One passes the usual milestones in life: You have children, you find that whether you like it or not, you have a huge investment in the human project somehow succeeding. You become maybe a little more tolerant as you get older. Pessimism begins to feel something like a badge that you perhaps do not wear so easily. There is something delicious and reckless about the pessimism of being 21. And when you get older you feel maybe a little more delicate and hope that things will flourish. You don't want to take a stick to it."
Among many literary honors, McEwan has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites (1976) and the Whitbread Prize for The Child in Time (1987). Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, he finally won in 1998 for Amsterdam. He has also received the WH Smith Literary Award and National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award for Atonement (2001) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday (2005).
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
组成一个家庭的最基本元素是父母,也就是家长(权力)。人们可以两两组建家庭,结合诞生后代,用DNA和知识续写人类的历史。若一个家庭失去了父母其中的一方,便可称为残破的单亲家庭,虽然结构不如完整家庭稳固健全,但仍旧能维持着家庭的基本运转,家长的权利依旧在运转控制着...
评分 评分组成一个家庭的最基本元素是父母,也就是家长(权力)。人们可以两两组建家庭,结合诞生后代,用DNA和知识续写人类的历史。若一个家庭失去了父母其中的一方,便可称为残破的单亲家庭,虽然结构不如完整家庭稳固健全,但仍旧能维持着家庭的基本运转,家长的权利依旧在运转控制着...
评分看完一个多礼拜了,某些形象与气味经久不散。那就随记几笔吧。 我作为讲述者,欲望的原点,球形的镜子,反照出与其它人物间的欲望关系。故事中的人与物有比较明显的对应关系。 父亲=水泥:父亲执着于水泥;我第一次手淫,也是他横死在水泥上的日子 母亲=盒子:我做了一个梦...
评分文笔细腻又精炼
评分In the cement garden, four kids are rotting upon their mother's corpse.
评分大概因为是McEwan的第一本书,比后期的要好读太多,行文流畅用词也简单,整本设定就各种claustrophobic inner world。变态心理类的小说真的白看不厌。Narcissistic personality disorder, transvestism, transsexualism, oedipus complex...McEwan真的很肯写。我也很肯读啊!但是关于小说的解读很难走出家庭伦理这一说,也是小说创作的局限性。不过后期小说尝试太多了也会让人乏,所以到底是要纯粹还是要刻意深刻,有时候,也很难选择!
评分麦克尤恩漫不经心的第一人称叙述让你觉得,这一切本该发生。边缘化的人物在完全蜕变重组之时,竟让人产生强烈的归属感。
评分Ian McEwan的童年阴影。。。
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