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.
麦克尤恩进入中国的顺序,像是一种倒叙,2007年由其同名小说改变的电影《赎罪》大热,人们在牢记凯拉奈特莉被钉在书架上做爱,两人四肢像蜘蛛般延展镜头的同时,也深深记住了“伊恩 麦克尤恩”这个在英格兰早已红得发紫的名字,《水泥花园》、《阿姆斯特丹》、《梦想家彼得》...
评分其实还包括译名 这俩都搞得无比小清新。 当然了,封面可以改,但这译名真不知道咋改才能不清新。 起初我是买错了,以为是另外一作家的 就是写自杀俱乐部和失恋排行榜那哥们。 这本小说腰封如是说: 布克诸奖没啥稀奇,诺奖只是时间问题。 鄙夷的鼻哼了一声,就凭借失恋排行榜...
评分其实还包括译名 这俩都搞得无比小清新。 当然了,封面可以改,但这译名真不知道咋改才能不清新。 起初我是买错了,以为是另外一作家的 就是写自杀俱乐部和失恋排行榜那哥们。 这本小说腰封如是说: 布克诸奖没啥稀奇,诺奖只是时间问题。 鄙夷的鼻哼了一声,就凭借失恋排行榜...
评分一本小书,前后被名人的序评夹着,八篇小说,独立的文本,一以贯之的脉络,青春的朝气与幽暗,敏锐与颓废,极度的狂想与沉湎,少年时代的一个个横切面,铺陈出华丽的残酷。麦克尤恩的笔法精湛,小说中色泽明亮与幽暗对称,彷徨与狂想并存;青春的绿草地上,满是幽灵的幻影...
评分周末,重读《立体几何》。 《立体几何》描写了一对纠结夫妇,梅茜有些神经质,甚至歇斯底里,渴求男人的关爱,无论是身体还是内心,可惜两方面“我”都未能满足她。小说开头有段精彩的对白: 她摇摇我的肩膀。“先别睡好吗?别让我一个人呆着。” “我就睡在你身边”,我说,...
Wild, in a fun way.
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。
评分我很邪恶
评分学校一条街10块钱买的盗版翻印书质量可以,没仔细读扫过几篇,躁动的青春啊 以前麦克尤恩很火那阵译文还是书城有过不错的介绍好像还节译了,可能是中文译本出版之前那时候。那就不可能是译文了那个时候已经停刊了,不过译文肯定作过专题的,拜《赎罪》所赐的尤恩热潮啊。读译林《时间中的孩子》是什么时候的事了,隐约还记得故事大概,那个时候他还被叫做“恐怖尤恩”。《在切瑟尔沙滩上》怎么说呢,译文登过前半的后来在复旦旧书店八块钱买到本九成新英国精装版,无绝人帮我搬家的时候还特意感慨了下不知道潜台词是啥表情很微妙。。。最喜欢《水泥花园》,多半是夏洛特更斯布电影的关系,她舅舅Andrew Birkin拍的。对这作家谈不上喜欢。不喜欢《赎罪》电影。
评分dark, complex, perverse, morbid, at times disturbing, but flowing imagination. fascinating.
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