Salon.com > Clive Linley http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:48:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ian McEwan, novelist-historian http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/ian_mcewan_novelist_historian/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/ian_mcewan_novelist_historian/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13072749 EVER SINCE HE EVOLVED out of producing what he describes as ‘staring-at-the-wall’ fiction — those slender stories such as The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers set in no tangible time or place —Ian McEwan has become England’s premier documentarian, the chief recorder of her near past in novelistic form.

Los Angeles Review of Books

Moving seamlessly between time periods, from the Second World War to the liberation of Iraq, McEwan’s attention is drawn not towards the deeds of great men that flavor the works of say Hilary Mantel or Robert Harris. McEwan, while oftentimes anchoring his works in the past, is by no means a historical novelist. Rather, his novels attempt to reflect the Zeitgeist, how the ever-changing political, social, and cultural climate impacted or impacts the lives of ordinary or at times extraordinary people.

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