Summary
(Doubleday)
Articulate and sinister Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan discusses the role of pathology (and that poet of pathology, Sigmund Freud) in his work.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.1 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.3 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.1 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.6 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:21.6 | The cow gold moon. |
| 0:23.6 | And kCRW.com. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Michael Silverblatt and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:28.6 | Today I'm very happy to have as my guest, someone I always enjoy talking to, and that |
| 0:34.6 | is Ian McEwen. |
| 0:36.6 | The new novel is called Soler. |
| 0:38.9 | It's published by Doubleday over at the Naneh Talese imprint, and the hero of this book is Michael |
| 0:47.2 | Beard. |
| 0:48.4 | He is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who, for the worst reasons, becomes involved with solar energy. |
| 1:00.1 | He has not particularly believed any of the Gulf, but now he is a convert. |
| 1:07.1 | And the book seems to be about not solar energy, but morality. |
| 1:12.4 | Am I right? |
| 1:13.6 | That's correct, Michael. |
| 1:15.1 | He's a scoundrel in the, I guess, the mode of full staff who casts a very long, wide shadow over this kind of hero. |
| 1:26.9 | He is a man who probably I've heaped practically every human weakness upon. |
| 1:34.8 | I hope that it's a sort of reflection on human nature |
| 1:39.4 | and the difficulty of reconciling our cleverness with our stupidity. |
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