Dancing in Shackles: Ian Mcewan's Fiction and Unreliable Narrative
by Wang Yue
About This Novel
Ian McEwan is a famous British writer and one of the most influential writers in contemporary Western literary circles. His creations are mainly novels, and he has published two collections of short stories and eleven novels so far. This article takes all of McEwan's novels as the research object, analyzes the unreliable narrative characteristics in his novels, and uses this as an entry point to study McEwan's creations to launch an in-depth discussion of McEwan's novels. Unreliable narration is a very important theoretical concept in today's narratology research, and it is also a very expressive narrative strategy that has been widely used in Ian McEwan's novels. The writer deliberately makes the narrative unreliable, just like an excellent dancer deliberately puts on shackles to dance to show his superb dancing skills. In this way, an extraordinary narrative effect is achieved. This manuscript is based on the different manifestations of unreliable narrative techniques in McEwan's novels. Through detailed and in-depth text analysis, his thirteen novels are interpreted in sequence, and the specific use of unreliable narrative in them, the way it is generated, and its unique artistic expression are elaborated from a narratological perspective. This comprehensive study of Ian McEwan's novel creation is the first of its kind in the country. As a contemporary heavyweight writer, McEwan deserves more attention in the country. Choosing unreliable narrative as the entry point for studying McEwan well captures the key points of the writer's narrative strategy, from which the essence of the writer's thoughts and artistic level can be unearthed, which has important academic value. At the same time, this research also led to the academic discussion of the concept of unreliable narrative, and demonstrated strong theoretical innovation through the narratological explanation of its six types of performance mechanisms.
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