Artforum International, March 1st, 1998
"The pathological extensions of love not only touch upon but overlap with normal experience," goes the neatly summarizing thesis of Enduring Love (quoted, apparently, from an actual British Journal of Psychiatry article), a statement that evokes the irritatingly schematic quality Ian McEwan's books sometimes have. It's fair to say that he intends, as the cover of First Love, Last Rites nicely synopsized, to "compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying." Yet in execution this mission has often seemed overdetermined, making the rounds of the taboo: incest (The Cement Garden), se...
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