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doesn't it just make your chest heave!! the way the grand movements of history just occur on a random tuesday when you're at the doctor's office or picking up a library book,, and suddenly you are faced with the fact that your life is inseparable from History, from the Stories that will be told !!!!
McEwan has written a life's work, like Ernaux's The Years, and like Ernaux he shows us just how much a life can contain, all its personal and world-historical traumas and errors and hopes. it's dizzying, how simultaneously granular and massive the scale, but somehow with a masterful literary sleight of hand he manages to fit it into one life and its appendages.
McEwan has written a life's work, like Ernaux's The Years, and like Ernaux he shows us just how much a life can contain, all its personal and world-historical traumas and errors and hopes. it's dizzying, how simultaneously granular and massive the scale, but somehow with a masterful literary sleight of hand he manages to fit it into one life and its appendages.