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Violence and alienation as part of Zeitgeist. In McEwan's early fiction, in his strange, experimental
short stories and novellas, with their isolated, sexually deviant male protagonists, he wrote from the
outside in, as it were. His was always the controlling intelligence, aggressively masculine, and he
followed his young male protagonists less in thought than in action, detailing their psychosis and
alienation with the cold detachment of a coroner examining a corpse.
McEwan's cruellest book, the one in which the violence seems most gratuitous and nasty, is The
Comfort of Strangers (1981), his novella about a young British couple adrift in an autumnal Venice
of shadows and fear that marked a point of transition for him: after this, and a long period of
silence, he returned as a different writer.
McEwan's children. THE FORMER wife of the novelist Ian McEwan was in hiding with their two
sons in northern France last night, in defiance of a court custody order
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