Eventually, you will get to a succinct three word quotation from Edna O’Brien – Fuck the plot. If you hit Refresh on the homepage of this site, you will change what quotation shows. (And, yes, Virginia, I am well aware that literary novel (ist) opens up a huge can of worms, which will have to be a discussion for another time.) So here are the four components: But all literary novelists, whether they know it or not, have to deal with them. They are not all essential (and many fine novels do not have all four or, as indicated above, deliberately try to subvert one or more of the four). The are four components that make up the novel. But, for the purposes of this exercise, let’s focus on the (relatively) conventional novel, which has been in place since the late eighteenth century. McEwan, through the dialogue between our hero Henry Perowne (by his own definition a very unliterary person) and his very literary poet-daughter, has a dig at the magic realists. This site is replete with many excellent novels that do not conform, because there is essentially non-fiction disguised as fiction, because of authorial interjection, no plot or subverted plot, satire and for many other reasons. Like the classical symphony, the novel has a very strict structure, which is why (like the classical symphony) so many writers have tried to subvert it (and often succeeded). Maybe this is the time and place to review what the novel is about, by which I mean the (more or less) literary novel. Who said book people can’t be real bitches? So is this book worthy or just McEwan phoning it in? This, of course, turned the criticism on Banville, with many people saying his book was not worthy. When the book was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the controversy resurfaced and became a tad ironic when the aforementioned Banville won the prize over McEwan. John Banville called it a dismayingly bad book. Others felt that he was cashing in on the anti-Blair, anti-Iraq War thing. Some said that, frankly, it wasn’t up to his usual standard.
This book caused a certain amount of controversy when first published.
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