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Cargando... Operación dulce (2012)por Ian McEwan
  
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 A satisfying spy novel with a literary twist provides both surprises and sly references to McEwan's early work Ian McEwan has never been a spy (or, if he has, that fact remains classified), but of today's novelists he may be the most uniquely suited to the profession. He has a scientific, technical mind drawn to structural ploys and complicated scene engineering. . . . Mr. McEwan likes manipulating readers as much as plots. . . . Ultimately, like his bloodless previous novel, Solar (2010), there is little point to Sweet Tooth beyond Mr. McEwan's low-level authorial deceptions. . . . The book is soon overwhelmed by its own narrative ruse, which revealed in the final pages, is clever but not meaningful.  In playing these mirror games, Mr. McEwan seems to want to make the reader think about the lines between life and art, and the similarities between spying and writing. He also seems to want to make us reconsider the assumptions we make when we read a work of fiction. As usual his prose is effortlessly seductive. And he does a nimble job too of conjuring London in the 1970s — with its economic woes, worries about I.R.A. bombings and uneasy assimilation of the countercultural changes of the ’60s. These aspects of “Sweet Tooth” keep the reader trucking on through the novel, but alas they’re insufficient compensation for the story’s self-conscious contrivance and foreseeable conclusion. The combination of all these nose-tapping hints suggests to the alert reader that there’s something clever-clever coming along at the end, which makes it feel even more like a gimmick. I won’t spoil things if you’re going to read the book, but just remember that one of the central characters is a novelist. OK? But Sweet Tooth – which has been misleadingly hyped as a thriller – is a different kind of work altogether. It’s McEwan’s version of metafiction, his exploration of what it could mean to write a postmodern-realist novel for a wide (mainstream and literary) readership. It’s also rather biographical. . . . . but this novel could be seen as his way of reaching beyond the easy labels without abandoning the style his readers love. He’s intelligent, has popular and literary appeal, manages credibly and interestingly to include politics in his writing, and has a gift for making an enormous range of readers feel as though he is writing about them, about their own particular life of the mind. He observes the tiny tragedies of growing up and growing old with humour and insight. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Inglaterra, 1972. En plena Guerra Fría la joven estudiante Serena Frome es reclutada en Cambridge por el MI5. Su misión: crear una fundación para ayudar a novelistas prometedores, pero cuya verdadera finalidad es generar propaganda anticomunista. Y en su vida dominada por el engaño entra Tom Healy, joven escritor del que acabará enamorándose. Hasta que llega el momento en que tiene que decidir si seguir con su mentira o contarle la verdad... Esta deslumbrante narración atrapa y sorprende al lector con sucesivas vueltas de tuerca en las que realidad y ficción se funden y confunden. Con extraordinaria sutileza psicológica, una trama trepidante y momentos de fina ironía, Ian McEwan demuestra una vez más que es un maestro consumado del arte de la novela. «Una novela que es una enorme y maravillosa muñeca rusa... Es una novela irónica y una novela de ideas, pero a diferencia de otros libros de ese estilo, es también intensamente emocionante» (Julie Myerson, The Observer). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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