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).
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
刊于《外滩画报》(2010/5/5) 1975年,伊恩·麦克尤恩的第一本短篇小说集《最初的爱情,最后的仪式》便获得了萨姆塞特·毛姆奖。在这组短篇小说里,他以极具实验性的精神,把青春期的爱、性与死等母题一一尝试,试图找到自己的写作主题;他又以热爱的作家们为模仿对象,尝试...
评分 评分 评分十多年前我还在读英文系时,麦克尤恩出现在滞后的中文版英国文学史上的身份是80后新秀,跟在一大帮占据大篇幅的风流人物之后,和马丁•艾米斯这样的名门之后一起露了个小脸。但天才注定是一登场便要逞风雷之势的。1976年的惊世处女作《最初的爱情,最后的仪式》为他赢得了平...
评分麦克尤恩在中国已经很红了,作品出了很多,众评论也都很高调。在这种时候回过头来读他的成名作《最初的爱情,最后的仪式》,是另一种味道。这部他27岁时出版的小说集,虽然写作技巧还远没有后来熟练和老道,但正因为如此,我们更能见出作家的本真——他关注什么,他写什么,他...
Wild, in a fun way.
评分these eight short stories remind me of Joyce's great works, Dubliners. both of them use the same tone and skill to write a story. No matter how serious how bad how strange the thing is, their articles still remain peaceful, calm. But McEwan is less powerful. His sentences are not that touching. Unlike Wolfe, he doesn't use the word and parallelism acurately. This makes him strange. However, as a debut, this book is awesome. Homemade and Butterflies are good. Converstation with a cupboard man is really sincere. It's about love and the relationship of being cared and being embraced tightly and the willing of choking to death by love. Solid Geometry is the best of all. I love imagination, love odd story which is told commonly and the fantastic ending.
评分唉 几年来未有能撼动solid geometry在我心中地位的短篇了 当然还有butterfly
评分写的非常好,有些故事让人惊讶的同时又有一种of course的恍然大悟感。故事参差有高低,但整体有一种对世界、人性的恶意,对世界、人性的无情攻击。然而我们无法反驳,因为,of course..
评分Ian McEwan一种好处,便是频频利用英语的句式惯性,将欲念不停后置,延宕,甚至拒绝提供最后的栖身之所。所以,难免会读得心上蚁群成行。
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