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The book provides a lucid analysis of all Ian McEwan fiction published to date, from his 1975 debut short stories up to the 2016 novel Nutshell, spanning forty years of his literary career. Apart from a general discussion of McEwan’s works, the study offers a uniform focal point: it concentrates on one of the key issues taken up by the writer – the aspect of relationships between partners and between family members. As the book demonstrates, the novelist employs interpersonal relations to establish a pertinent context in which he can dramatically portray the process of identity formation in his characters. Throughout his fiction, McEwan consistently uses references to psychoanalysis, either veiled or direct. The proposed book investigates the novelist’s oeuvre through the lens of the psychoanalytic theory developed by Jacques Lacan. The approach used makes the book useful both for readers well familiar with this apparatus, and for those who need introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis and such of his concepts as “desire,” “fantasy,” “the symbolic order” or “ the Name-of-the-Father.”
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor of English at the University of Lodz
Introduction Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of EdenChapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal SuperegoPart 2: DevelopmentsChapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child WithinChapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish MasculinityChapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the RealChapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other’s DesirePart 3: Maturity Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via AmsterdamChapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifistChapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil BeachPart 4: Recent Fiction Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of DesireChapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive ManipulationChapter
An excellent blend of critical explication and close analysis; Dobrogoszcz deftly and originally combines thought-provoking elucidation of the novels with a consistent theoretical perspective throughout.