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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
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Excellent interview with a novelist who came into his own with _Atonement_ (in my opinion). Up until that book, I found his novels technically brilliant but emotionally flat. I hated the trick endings of some of them, too -- particularly _Amsterdam_.
ReplyDeleteWe read to find that the world and our lives has a greater meaning, not a lesser, parodic one. Martin Amis has never gotten that, but Ian McEwan has, and Julian Barnes is coming 'round.
I'll be buying _Chesil Beach_ for sure: McEwan's heart has now caught up with his mind.