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The Post-9/11 Writing of London in McEwan’s Saturday
LIU Yufei
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.02.003
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Hailed as “the greatest living novelist in the British Isles”, McEwan’s novel Saturday, published in 2005, is set in the cosmopolitan city of London. The story takes place on February 15, 2003, when Europe is still covered by the haze of September 11. The London described by McEwan is full of fear of terrorist attacks. The city is in chaos and disorder, and emptiness and alienation are filled in the hearts of London citizens. This paper attempts to analyze the post-9/11 London cityscape in this novel, and to analyze the social status quo of London under McEwan’s description, so as to further interpret the social deformity and spiritual wastage in the novel.
Ian McEwan, Saturday, post-9/11 writing
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