Frasi di Ian McEwan
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Ian Russell McEwan è uno scrittore inglese.

✵ 21. Giugno 1948   •   Altri nomi Ијан Макјуан, ایان مک‌یوون
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“A nessuno importerà quali individui siano stati modificati per costruire un romanzo. Lo so, c’è sempre un certo tipo di lettore che si sentirà in dovere di chiedere: Ma che cosa è successo veramente? La risposta è semplice: gli amanti sopravvivono, felici. Finché resterà anche una sola copia, un unico dattiloscritto della mia stesura finale, la mia Arabella dall'animo sincero e il suo principe-dottore sopravviveranno per amarsi. Il problema in questi cinquantanove anni è stato un altro: come può una scrittrice espiare le proprie colpe quando il suo potere assoluto di decidere dei destini altrui la rende simile a Dio? Non esiste nessuno, nessuna entità superiore a cui possa fare appello, per riconciliarsi, per ottenere il perdono. Non c’è nulla al di fuori di lei. È la sua fantasia a sancire i limiti e i termini della storia. Non c’è espiazione per Dio, né per il romanziere, nemmeno se fossero atei. È sempre stato un compito impossibile, ed è proprio questo il punto. Si risolve tutto nel tentativo. […] Mi piace pensare che non sia debolezza né desiderio di fuga, ma un ultimo gesto di cortesia, una presa di posizione contro la dimenticanza e l'angoscia, permettere ai miei amanti di sopravvivere e vederli riuniti alla fine. Ho regalato loro la felicità, ma non sono stata tanto opportunista da consentire che mi perdonassero, non proprio, non ancora.”

Atonement

“Erano i momenti di lucidità a tormentarlo.”

Origine: Espiazione, p. 252

Ian McEwan: Frasi in inglese

“Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.”

Ian McEwan libro Solar

Page 149. (A line from Michael Beard's speech at the Savoy Hotel, London.)
Solar (2010)

“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.”

Ian McEwan libro The Cement Garden

Page 9. (Opening line of the book)
The Cement Garden (1978)

“Nearby, where the main road forked, stood an iron cross on a stone base. As the English couple watched, a mason was cutting in half a dozen fresh names. On the far side of the street, in the deep shadow of a doorway, a youngish woman in black was also watching. She was so pale they assumed at first she had some sort of wasting disease. She remained perfectly still, with one hand holding an edge of her headscarf so that it obscured her mouth. The mason seemed embarrassed and kept his back to her while he worked. After a quarter of an hour an old man in blue workman's clothes came shuffling along in carpet slippers and took her hand without a word and led her away. When the propriétaire came out he nodded at the other side of the street, at the empty space and murmured, 'Trois. Mari et deux frères,' as he set down their salads.This sombre incident remained with them as they struggled up the hill in the heat, heavy with lunch, towards the Bergerie de Tédenat. They stopped half way up in the shade of a stand of pines before a long stretch of open ground. Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck by the recently concluded war not as a historical, geopolitical fact but as a multiplicity, a near-infinity of private sorrows, as a boundless grief minutely subdivided without diminishment among individuals who covered the continent like dust, like spores whose separate identities would remain unknown, and whose totality showed more sadness than anyone could ever begin to comprehend; a weight borne in silence by hundreds of thousands, millions, like the woman in black for a husband and two brothers, each grief a particular, intricate, keening love story that might have been otherwise. It seemed as though he had never thought about the war before, not about its cost. He had been so busy with the details of his work, of doing it well, and his widest view had been of war aims, of winning, of statistical deaths, statistical destruction, and of post-war reconstruction. For the first time he sensed the scale of the catastrophe in terms of feeling; all those unique and solitary deaths, all that consequent sorrow, unique and solitary too, which had no place in conferences, headlines, history, and which had quietly retired to houses, kitchens, unshared beds, and anguished memories. This came upon Bernard by a pine tree in the Languedoc in 1946 not as an observation he could share with June but as a deep apprehension, a recognition of a truth that dismayed him into silence and, later, a question: what possible good could come of a Europe covered in this dust, these spores, when forgetting would be inhuman and dangerous, and remembering a constant torture?”

Ian McEwan libro Cani neri

Page 164-165.
Black Dogs (1992)

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