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Bad Readers in Ian McEwan’s novels

Summary/Abstract: The article “The Bad Readers in Ian McEwan’s Novels” deals with the problem of homo legens, the reading human, in the work of the British novelist. The text follows the reader characters in his novels, drawing special attention to the protagonists of the novels Atonement and Saturday, and relating their reading to the high level of intertextuality in the two novels. The article holds that, as a whole, reader characters in McEwan’s novels make crucial epistemological errors and fail to find a working correlation between the reality of the works they read and their own (as a matter of fact, also fictional) reality. This problem is discussed in the context of the traditional for English culture debate of the role of sympathetic imagination as well as within the frame of McEwan’s understanding that imagination, empathy, the ability to imagine what it is to be someone else, is at the basis of civilization.

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