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'Black Dogs' by Ian McEwan

Claudia Rittig
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Librarian Note: This is NOT the novel by Ian McEwan, but a paper about the book. For the novel, see Black Dogs

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Rostock (Anglistics/American Studies), course: "Contemporary British Fiction", language: English, abstract: The book “Black Dogs” by Ian McEwan is about June and Bernard Tremaine and the incompatibility of their different worldviews and corresponding lifestyles. Their first encounter is in 1944 at their workplace, an office in Senate House, Bloomsbury, London, where June works as a linguist doing “… translation work for a project involving the adaptation of treadle sewing machines to power generation” (p. 135) and Bernard, originally a Cambridge science graduate, has “… a desk job peripherally connected with the intelligence services. ” (p. 135). Two years later, the newly-weds sign up as members of the Communist Party, leave their jobs and travel to the former battlefields of Europe with the intention of building a new Europe. During their honeymoon they also spend some time in the south of France where June is (almost) attacked by two huge black dogs. She manages to drive them away but is deeply frightened. She sees them as an encounter with evil. Nevertheless June really enjoys the countryside of this area and buys a house there. Unfortunately, hers and Bernard's worldviews are too different to combine and they live more and more often apart from each other. Their children grow up partly in England and partly in France. Whereas June leaves the Communist Party after a few months, due to the difference between Communist ideas and the way these ideas were put into practice, Bernard stays for approximately 10 years. [...]
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'Black Dogs' by Ian McEwan

Claudia Rittig
3.61/5 (349 ratings)
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Librarian Note: This is NOT the novel by Ian McEwan, but a paper about the book. For the novel, see Black Dogs

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Rostock (Anglistics/American Studies), course: "Contemporary British Fiction", language: English, abstract: The book “Black Dogs” by Ian McEwan is about June and Bernard Tremaine and the incompatibility of their different worldviews and corresponding lifestyles. Their first encounter is in 1944 at their workplace, an office in Senate House, Bloomsbury, London, where June works as a linguist doing “… translation work for a project involving the adaptation of treadle sewing machines to power generation” (p. 135) and Bernard, originally a Cambridge science graduate, has “… a desk job peripherally connected with the intelligence services. ” (p. 135). Two years later, the newly-weds sign up as members of the Communist Party, leave their jobs and travel to the former battlefields of Europe with the intention of building a new Europe. During their honeymoon they also spend some time in the south of France where June is (almost) attacked by two huge black dogs. She manages to drive them away but is deeply frightened. She sees them as an encounter with evil. Nevertheless June really enjoys the countryside of this area and buys a house there. Unfortunately, hers and Bernard's worldviews are too different to combine and they live more and more often apart from each other. Their children grow up partly in England and partly in France. Whereas June leaves the Communist Party after a few months, due to the difference between Communist ideas and the way these ideas were put into practice, Bernard stays for approximately 10 years. [...]
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eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B007YDM0I6

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