Stunningly orderly and harmonious.' The Seattle Times 'Magnificently imagined.' San Francisco Chronicle 'A brilliant work. Saturday is almost too good to bear.' The Times-Picayune 'Utterly enthralling. In his first book for children, McEwan ( The Comfort of Strangers The Child in Time ) dextrously presents a series of strange and wonderful metamorphoses. As such, despite the liberal humanist emphasis on avoidance of prejudice and considering all sides of an issue, the novel fails to ask the essential questions about the condition of the contemporary world – the real causes of terrorism – and in effect by justifying an imperialistic war, rather unabashedly, serves power. On the level of the sentence, McEwan is smart, witty and insightful.

However, considering the post-9/11 context, the writers seek to shed light on the connection between this liberal humanist tendency and neo-orientalism (with Islamophobia as one of its main features). James Wood claims that, at the end of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Briony Tallis is suffering from Alzheimer’s, when in fact her condition is known as vascular dementia ( LRB, 30 April ). The novel, the writers contend, in a sense reflects and is inflected by all the main features of liberal humanism: secularism transformed in the New Atheist militant stance against religion, scientism, rationalism, pluralism, emphasis on the centrality of man and his liberties and rights, emphasis on the human relations and glorification of art and literature as humanizing achievements. Read it twice The first time I read this. The writers argue that Saturday’s essentially pro-war – pro-Establishment – stance can be explained in terms of liberal humanist views which the novel by and large espouses. Introspective and challenging: a book for thought, recording a mans existence within a day.

This article tries to examine Ian McEwan’s Saturday in terms of its ideological orientation. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Saturday by McEwan, Ian at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products.

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