http://www.mikeettner.com/02/2010/solar-by-ian-mcewan/ . . . and with no pretentious tagline! Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mikeettner.com/02/2010/solar-by-ian-mcewan/#comment-1506 Jasper Tue, 25 May 2010 12:18:00 +0000 http://www.mikeettner.com/?p=2282#comment-1506 There's a posting prompted by Ian McEwan's 'Solar' - which has just won an award here in Britain for comedy fiction - on the SolarUK blog. It looks at his thoughts on how the arts and science are not really so different - that the arts can be refined and improved as thought they are a kind of scientific theory. But I don't think Ian McEwan's books are any form of peak-so-far in the history of the English novel, admirable though they are. There’s a posting prompted by Ian McEwan’s ‘Solar’ – which has just won an award here in Britain for comedy fiction – on the SolarUK blog. It looks at his thoughts on how the arts and science are not really so different – that the arts can be refined and improved as thought they are a kind of scientific theory. But I don’t think Ian McEwan’s books are any form of peak-so-far in the history of the English novel, admirable though they are.

]]> http://www.mikeettner.com/02/2010/solar-by-ian-mcewan/#comment-1081 “Solar” by Ian McEwan « It's Mike Ettner's Blog | ReadersRegion.Com Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:01:09 +0000 http://www.mikeettner.com/?p=2282#comment-1081 [...] Here is the original post:  “Solar” by Ian McEwan « It's Mike Ettner's Blog [...] [...] Here is the original post:  “Solar” by Ian McEwan « It's Mike Ettner's Blog [...]

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