ELEMENTS OF PUNK PHILOSOPHY IN IAN McEWAN’S THE CEMENT GARDEN
ELEMENTS OF PUNK PHILOSOPHY IN IAN McEWAN’S THE CEMENT GARDEN

Summary/Abstract: The paper singles out defining elements of the 1970s punk philosophy and proceeds to analyze their presence in Ian McEwan’s novel The Cement Garden. The story of four orphaned protagonists on the margin of society and their renouncement of its norms and mores is regarded as a metaphor for the generation of punk rockers who showed similar disdain for everything considered "normal” by the society. Analysis of the setting, characters and their relationship with the ideas articulated in the works of notable punk spokesmen will lead us to the conclusion that the author has indeed depicted the youthful anarchists of his time in a novelesque form and spoke in the very language of Generation X.

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