Black Dogs: Ian McEwan

Product Information

Forse non lo è neppure il sud della Francia, ma per l’episodio che vi succede, è quella la parte di mondo che contende a Berlino lo scettro dell’attenzione, la vetta narrativa. Unfortunately, the narrator can’t make the arithmetic mean between the extreme positions work out either, as the ideas are in different realms… If you take a couple of apples and pears, add them together, and then divide them by two, you do not get a perfect pearapple, but rather a mash, which is what this book is to me.

when he was eight years old, and is self-aware enough to realize that he has been seeking for parental figures ever after. It makes the impression that the author wanted to answer the ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, but without the humorous focus of Douglas Adams, and without the number 42 guiding him through the maze of geopolitical and historical issues that haunt humankind.There is a witty analysis of contemporary life that appeals to me, put into occasionally brilliant prose.

This clearing of the fog isn't orchestrated by some dramatic reveal or anything like a twist; it just naturally grows from the story. And while horror certainly has a part in McEwan's world, the final quality to emerge from his archaeological dig is sheer unadulterated joy. Still, this hooks you in and it makes everything so relatable that it's hard not to become engrossed in the story. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date. McEwan a metaphor by which he can turn a fictional family memoir into an elliptical meditation on Europe's past and future.

It is then that they begin to see the horrible aftermath of World War II and all the suffering it has caused.

A reviewer for Publishers Weekly argued that for some the pivotal scene may be unconvincing because McEwan "is rather too didactic in the exposition of his theme”. Ma i “cani neri” tornano: questa volta sotto forma di un gruppo di naziskin che aggredisce Bernard nella Berlino riunificata. Black Dogs" is a strange combination of the early McEwan and the later McEwan, not that the two are ultimately separated by more than the author's age and the benefit of hindsight. They don’t have nearly enough sex, which, unlike politics, is one of the things McEwan is particularly good at describing. He revisits the Cévennes, a harsh landscape but also a purifying one, and once again becomes embroiled in an apparently senseless act of violence.I can see what Mcewan was trying to do but I found the characters he used (upper middle class types) just frustrating. Entiendo que este libro es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las ideologías y creencias humanas, los motivos por los cuales nos aferramos a ellas y las defendemos, cómo nos transforman y definen. And I particularly liked the ending, which could not be more applicable to today, although the book is copyrighted 1992. In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani stated that "McEwan dexterously opens out his story onto a political and philosophical level" but skates briskly over these larger implications of the story after doing so. Although Bernard does not renounce Communism until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, he continues to believe in reason and the efficacy of "sensible social engineering"; June, meanwhile, scorns these worldly beliefs for a more mystical approach to life.