antw. Literary inspiration /: mcewan

[John Bailey]

I agree with Kai. The ending of 'Amsterdam' made me suddenly perceive the 
certain recurring formula of McEwan. That said, The Cement Garden is one of 
my favourite novels and most of his work is worth the read. I've still never 
seen him in the same room as Harold Pinter, though.

I'd be interested to hear any reviews of 'Atonement'.

>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (lorentzen-nicklaus)
>To: paul.mackin at verizon.net
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: antw. Literary inspiration /: mcewan
>Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:15:45 +0200
>
>
>
>Paul Mackin schrieb: > _Amsterdam_ is also lying here to be read.
>
>    beware! you'll perhaps somehow like it while reading (it has suspense), 
>yet
>    afterwards you feel like having eaten fast food for weeks ... at least 
>this
>    was my experience.
>                                 greetings: kai
>
>    ps: "psychopolis", however, will always remain my favourite l.a. story.
>
>
> > Anybody read Ian McEwan's recent (just out in U.S.) _Atonement_?  I just 
>did
> > and was curious if any p-listers might have liked it.  On one level I 
>have to
> > say the book is quite a downer. It deals with a) an innocent man being 
>sent
> > to prison because of the lie of one of the novel's principal 
>characters--a
> > 13-year old girl at the time, b) a disastrous WW II retreat (Dunkirk), 
>and c)
> > grisly life in a wartime London military hospital.  But the book is also
> > about fiction writing. Fiction writing from what I would be inclined to 
>call
> > an economics perspective. The COST--there ain't no free lunch--of 
>literary
> > creation both to the creator himself (HERself in this particular case) 
>and
> > the real people from whom she needs to draw inspiration.
>




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