Petr Chalupský
Valuable and Vulnerable — the City in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and Saturday
Číslo: 1/2012
Periodikum: Prague Journal of English Studies
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Anotace:
Ian McEwan is one of the most prominent cartographers of modern urban life among
contemporary British novelists as the city, in various forms, has featured in most of
his fiction so far. is article deals with his two notably urban novels, Enduring
Love (1997) and Saturday (2005), and argues that the latter can be understood as
a sequel to the first in terms of its continuation of the theme of the city as a reflection
of the main protagonist’s mind. Yet, as the role of London in Saturday is much more
complex and varied than in its predecessor, the article also focuses on how the city is
used in Saturday in order to explore the theme of the relationship between the private
self and outside reality, and thus attempts to demonstrate how the novel captures the
Zeitgeist of the post-9/11 Western world as well as the very essence of the postmodern
urban condition.
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contemporary British novelists as the city, in various forms, has featured in most of
his fiction so far. is article deals with his two notably urban novels, Enduring
Love (1997) and Saturday (2005), and argues that the latter can be understood as
a sequel to the first in terms of its continuation of the theme of the city as a reflection
of the main protagonist’s mind. Yet, as the role of London in Saturday is much more
complex and varied than in its predecessor, the article also focuses on how the city is
used in Saturday in order to explore the theme of the relationship between the private
self and outside reality, and thus attempts to demonstrate how the novel captures the
Zeitgeist of the post-9/11 Western world as well as the very essence of the postmodern
urban condition.