Ian Mc Ewan Interview: On Making Love Work in Fiction

Literature thrives on The renowned British writer Ian McEwan talks of making love work in fiction, the amazing evolution of the novel as a genre, and the mature writer as a toddler of old age. In literature it seems impossible that someone could be married to the woman they love, McEwan says: Novels struggle constantly with the business of trying to portray sustained Happiness and love is always something fleeting, and thus very precious: It s the nature of the human condition that we re only truly happy in bursts. We can t be constantly Growing older means seeing more and forgiving more, while also loosing some of the fabulous energy of the twenties, explains McEwan: Novelists don t have to retire at the age of 31, they accumulate more life, more love, more disappointments, more of Our consciousness is embodied our thoughts depend on the body. Growing older is all about the slow collapse of the body: There s always something worse coming down the track h