Enduring_Love

Enduring Love Emile Zola describes the role of the novelist as being like “a pathologist dissecting life with the book as a kind of experiment”. How does this illuminate our understanding of the first chapter of Enduring Love ' If Ian McEwan is a pathologist dissecting life, with Enduring Love being the experiment, then he uses the narrator like a surgical tool to carry out the experiment and reveal the truth. The character who narrates the event of the balloon crashing and who is also part of the event itself is a scientist. This is clearly reflected in the views he holds on the event and the way in which he describes them to us. The first paragraph of the chapter and so of the whole book is extremely interesting. McEwan begins “The beginning is easy to mark… We turned to look across the field and saw the danger. Next thing I was running towards it… I don’t recall dropping the corkscrew, or getting to my feet”. It is slightly ironic that he chooses to begin his novel with the line, “The beginning is easy to mark”. His words are reflected in the novel and also in the events the novel is to go life, human, first, balloon, way, fact, events, event, chapter, scientific, reader, novel, mcewan, fate, experiment, whilst, view, universe, towards, snooker, role, perspective, pathologist, narrator, morality, merely, materialistic, love, lives, ian, humans, extremely, enduring, emile, easy, dissecting, describes, concepts, book, being, beginning, because, zola’s, whole, views, very, using, time, think, theory, table