Though they continue to visit each other and both have a presence in their children’s lives, they never reconcile. He collects insects – a displeasing hobby which leaves June dangerously isolated during the crucial point of their honeymoon. Kakutani said that the reader is ultimately “intrigued and provoked but also vaguely undernourished", describing the novel as "absorbing yet vexing”. I think it's sort of a professional flaw, after reading so many books, I know from the very first one or two pages, how many more I can afford to not attentively read. Mi è sembrato un McEwan meno ispirato del solito, al punto che ho cominciato a diradare la mia frequentazione della sua letteratura, intensa negli anni a precedere.

James Saynor of The Observer derided the book as "wan and fractured" and the characterization as "schematic".June is, essentially, the expression of a philosophical concept and the concept is redemptive grace. The preface, written by the author but through his main character and completely connected to the story, hit me after about 20 rows in the first page. Ma forse anche una trama un po’ troppo arzigogolata, perfino per uno come McEwan che non sceglie mai intrecci lineari, quelli che vanno da A a B senza deviazioni. The story is fictional, but it’s presented as the non-fictional memoirs of two idealistic British communists who live through the aftermath of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Amanda Craig wrote in the Literary Review that while Black Dogs had potential to be "a pleasing essay on the ambiguous nature of memory and desire, or the real and the ideal," it ultimately "gets lost in portentous [.

An understated yet as a whole quite potent tale that looks at the power that can be exerted by an exposure to evil and also of how differing personal ideologies can impact on loving human relationships. During their honeymoon, however, something happens that shakes June's faith in rationalism, in progress, in the everyday world of politics; it also leaves her and Bernard on different sides of a great metaphysical divide. And while horror certainly has a part in McEwan's world, the final quality to emerge from his archaeological dig is sheer unadulterated joy.produce a haunting fable about the fragility of civilization, always threatened by the cruelty latent in humankind.