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).
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
更多的时候先入为主的主观思想主导了我们对于一个事物的看法,即便评价这一行为本身就带有很浓的主观色彩。阅读一本书的时候尤其是这样。不排除是因为当下快餐阅读文化导致所有书籍疯狂扭曲的编辑营销自己,所有的书籍都在腰封或者是封底甚至是封面都用上赤裸的语言来表达这...
评分 评分刊于《外滩画报》(2010/5/5) 1975年,伊恩·麦克尤恩的第一本短篇小说集《最初的爱情,最后的仪式》便获得了萨姆塞特·毛姆奖。在这组短篇小说里,他以极具实验性的精神,把青春期的爱、性与死等母题一一尝试,试图找到自己的写作主题;他又以热爱的作家们为模仿对象,尝试...
评分常在一本书读到最后的时候,才发现已不知不觉被渗透了。 这最初的爱情最后的仪式,原来和想象中不一样,是自然而诡异的,有着奇幻和惊悚的元素。 八个短篇,在相通的母题下展示出迥异的面孔。每个故事的叙述,都透露着仅属于它的独特气息。每个主人公的出场,都像是一个陌...
评分更多的时候先入为主的主观思想主导了我们对于一个事物的看法,即便评价这一行为本身就带有很浓的主观色彩。阅读一本书的时候尤其是这样。不排除是因为当下快餐阅读文化导致所有书籍疯狂扭曲的编辑营销自己,所有的书籍都在腰封或者是封底甚至是封面都用上赤裸的语言来表达这...
Ian McEwan一种好处,便是频频利用英语的句式惯性,将欲念不停后置,延宕,甚至拒绝提供最后的栖身之所。所以,难免会读得心上蚁群成行。
评分Ian McEwan is a sick ,sick man. But damn he can write!——Goodreads上某评论
评分如你喜欢怪人,其实我很美。
评分我很邪恶
评分比较喜欢Homemade还有Conversation With a Cupboard Man(这两个算最清口味了的吧)McEwan大叔真蛮牛,用一种平淡得貌似琐碎的口吻向你讲着各种SM与人性的扭曲。
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