9/17/2023 0 Comments Pastel partner 2009 crack(“She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction,” McEwan writes of Briony. After discussing his many duplicitous characters-such as Briony Tallis, the precocious adolescent of his 2001 novel, “Atonement,” who ruins two lives when she makes a false accusation of rape-McEwan pointed to a “study in cognitive psychology” suggesting that “the best way to deceive someone is first to deceive yourself,” because you’re more convincing when you’re sincere. On a recent hike through the woods surrounding his new country house-a renovated seventeenth-century brick-and-flint cottage, in Buckinghamshire-he regularly punctuated his observations about Homo sapiens with the citation of a peer-reviewed experiment. One of McEwan’s goals is to “incite a naked hunger in readers.” Photograph by Steve PykeĪll novelists are scholars of human behavior, but Ian McEwan pursues the matter with more scientific rigor than the job strictly requires.
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