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).
发表于2024-05-02
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《水泥花园》:未成年人的乱伦王国 我是在看完电影《赎罪》后才看伊恩·麦克尤恩的这本《水泥花园》的。书很薄,属于他的早期作品,但是写得很诡异——相对来说,《赎罪》算得上是一部“正常”的小说,虽然我未读过。 看完书,大致拎了一下整个构架。小说分两部,十个章节...
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...
评分开始知道伊恩·麦克尤恩大概是在几年前,从他的《赎罪》。但对作者本身的印象不深,完全被他的作品代替了,不知道这是不是作者想要的。昨天下午去了省图书馆,这本书的标题《水泥花园》引起了我的注意主义,因为,我记得自己在豆瓣上收藏过。当然这个时候我将它借了出来,书...
评分Ian McEwan的这部小说很短,150页,10万字不到,就像借给我的朋友所说的,两个晚上就看完了。有人说故事很惊悚,我不觉得,也有人把背后隐含的家庭社会寓意挖得很深,我也耸耸肩。我只能说我获得了纯粹的阅读快感,第一次看“恐怖Ian”的小说,剧情张力和人物性格碰撞都很抓人...
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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.
写得是很好,这点毋庸置疑/但是姐弟乱伦的情节真的是让人非常不适/弟弟退回到了婴儿期/如果是想表达父母去世后,姐弟代替父母构建了一个新家庭,那就太刻意,太学院派,太机械了/有点想起来看《床笫之间》的感觉了/不知是否创作前期和后期的差别,看来要避免前期的作品
评分In the cement garden, four kids are rotting upon their mother's corpse.
评分写的是挺好可是tmd跟地狱似的……见有人说作者起码保留了亲情的温暖,作为一个无法理解亲情的人,脚得这就是几个变态孩子凑一团互相捂着一起腐烂啊…
评分写的是挺好可是tmd跟地狱似的……见有人说作者起码保留了亲情的温暖,作为一个无法理解亲情的人,脚得这就是几个变态孩子凑一团互相捂着一起腐烂啊…
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