Ian McEwan says, "you can not write a novel that speaks only of happiness"

Saturday 30 January, 06:43 PM Cartagena (Colombia), 31 ene (EFE) .- The British writer Ian McEwan, known for the harrowing stories that his characters live, consider that you can not write a novel in which only talk of happiness and love will endure all the time. McEwan, highlighted with the title of Knight of the Order of the British Empire, Efe argued that "happiness can be described as a moment within a poem, because poetry is very good to define a fleeting feeling, but the novel captures more extended time. "Thus, he explained, is experiencing life in different times, which change, and it passes for" love, of sadness, disappointment, disappointments, for different states of being human. You can not write a novel permanently keeping love, because it is in the nature of human being in a state of ecstasy. "Therefore, McEwan's characters" can not be happy on page 1 and also in the 200 and the 400. "Indeed, the writer said he once told the story of a man who loved and was loved by his wife and children and that" some readers furious because he had always written about characters that horrible things happened to them. "Therefore, the writer has become an expert at rounding profiles psychopaths, perverts and offenders, so that the film director Andrew Birkin attributed the nickname" Ian Macabre ". For McEwan" novels always have to deal with changes and novelists must adopt the changes that take place in the darkest corners of the soul, "the misunderstandings, violence, illusions." Thus, the British often transfer their dynamic concept of life to his novels, as in "Atonement," "The pleasure traveler," "The Innocent", "black dog" and "Enduring Love." In his next novel, entitled "Solar", whose publication is scheduled for March, the Knight of the Order of the British Empire will have a "comedy about human nature" with the controversial issue of climate change as a backdrop. "His hero is a sixties who won a Nobel prize for physics in the decade 80s, and is a famous man who gives lectures, interviews, and think you have the secret to save the world from climate change, but man is a liar, selfish and addicted to junk food at the end of the book has gained thirty kilos, "forward. McEwan is, with the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the central figure of the fifth version of this great literary event held in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias, which until morning parade over 95 authors from several countries. The Hay Festival has been held for over twenty years in Hay-on-Wye (Wales, United Kingdom), a town of 1,300 inhabitants situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Average (Not Rated)