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A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
?Darkly impressive.? -- The Times
?A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.? -- Tom Paulin
?Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.? -- Sunday Times
"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." -- New York Review of Books
"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- The Times
"The Maestro." -- New Statesman
"McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." -- John Fowles
"A sparkling and adventurous writer." -- Dennis Potter
?A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.? -- Tom Paulin
?Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.? -- Sunday Times
"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." -- New York Review of Books
"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- The Times
"The Maestro." -- New Statesman
"McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." -- John Fowles
"A sparkling and adventurous writer." -- Dennis Potter
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Quatre frères et soeurs se retrouvent sans parents lors d'un été particulièrement chaud. Ils s'inventent une vie autour d'un jardin recouvert de ciment, pour tenter de rester ensemble et de ne pas être séparés par le monde des adultes. A la fois touchant et dérangeant, The Cement Garden ressemble un peu à Sa Majesté des Mouches: que feraient des enfants livrés à eux-mêmes? Des choses que les adultes ne peuvent pas comprendre...
Contrairement à Atonement qui tente d'expliquer pourquoi un enfant a agi d'une certaine façons, et les conséquences, The Cement Garden se contente de décrire les états d'âme et les gestes du narrateur, sans chercher de justification. C'est plus dérangeant comme lecture, surtout vers la fin quand les enfants sont vraiment livrés à eux-même. Ian McEwan réussi une fois de plus à rendre une atmosphère magnifiquement décrite, en phase avec ses personnages: un quasi huis-clos dans la maison et le jardin en ciment, l'été chaud et poussièreux qui n'en finit pas...
Contrairement à Atonement qui tente d'expliquer pourquoi un enfant a agi d'une certaine façons, et les conséquences, The Cement Garden se contente de décrire les états d'âme et les gestes du narrateur, sans chercher de justification. C'est plus dérangeant comme lecture, surtout vers la fin quand les enfants sont vraiment livrés à eux-même. Ian McEwan réussi une fois de plus à rendre une atmosphère magnifiquement décrite, en phase avec ses personnages: un quasi huis-clos dans la maison et le jardin en ciment, l'été chaud et poussièreux qui n'en finit pas...
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McEwan made his debut in 1975 with "First Love, Last Rites", a collection of short stories. His opening story dealt with a taboo subject. In this 1978 stark, shocking debut novel the taboo is breached again. This perfectly-plotted book is rich on atmosphere, with plenty of isolation and estrangement, decline and decay and on bringing characters alive. Towards the end of a hot and dry summer holiday this intriguing novel ends when cars with revolving blue lights screech to a halt.
The big house with garden and spacious cellar stands alone in an area bulldozed flat to make way for a road that was never built. It houses a family of six, of which first the father, then the mother die. The children (16, 14, 12 and 5) are alone now and decide to bury Mother in concrete in an army sheet metal suitcase in the basement. The means: the remains of 15 bags of cement and a load of sand their late Father bought to realize his weird dream garden. The motive: they have no relatives and although rather prickly, even hostile, they do not fancy being cared for in foster families or orphanages.
What follows is pure drama, because each child reacts in his/her own way to the new reality. For Jack, now 15, time seems to stand still. He is the storyteller when he does not sleep or masturbate, and his lack of personal hygiene matches the kitchen's smelly state. Tom, now 6, goes back in time, wants to be a girl, then a baby with sister Julie, now 17 as his mother. Sue, now 13, starts and keeps a diary.
One day, Julie finally orders a housecleaning and introduces her siblings to Derek (23), a smart, rich snooker player. At the end of a suffocating summer which the quartet survived without a plan for the future, the taboo is finally broken and consumed to the sound and rhythm of Derek's sledgehammer from the cellar... Brr.
The big house with garden and spacious cellar stands alone in an area bulldozed flat to make way for a road that was never built. It houses a family of six, of which first the father, then the mother die. The children (16, 14, 12 and 5) are alone now and decide to bury Mother in concrete in an army sheet metal suitcase in the basement. The means: the remains of 15 bags of cement and a load of sand their late Father bought to realize his weird dream garden. The motive: they have no relatives and although rather prickly, even hostile, they do not fancy being cared for in foster families or orphanages.
What follows is pure drama, because each child reacts in his/her own way to the new reality. For Jack, now 15, time seems to stand still. He is the storyteller when he does not sleep or masturbate, and his lack of personal hygiene matches the kitchen's smelly state. Tom, now 6, goes back in time, wants to be a girl, then a baby with sister Julie, now 17 as his mother. Sue, now 13, starts and keeps a diary.
One day, Julie finally orders a housecleaning and introduces her siblings to Derek (23), a smart, rich snooker player. At the end of a suffocating summer which the quartet survived without a plan for the future, the taboo is finally broken and consumed to the sound and rhythm of Derek's sledgehammer from the cellar... Brr.
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