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In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world a century after the disasters. The good news in “What We Can Know” is that humanity still exists, which McEwan calls “nuanced optimism.” He and David Remnick discuss the tradition of the big-themed social novel, which has fallen out of literary fashion – too many novels, McEwan argues, hide “their bad prose behind character.” But is realistic fiction, Remnick asks, “up to the task” of describing digital life today? It remains “the best tool we have for understanding who we are, for representing the flow of thoughts and feelings, and for representing the finer details of what happens between individuals,” McEwan replies. “We have not yet found a convincing alternative.” However, he is not interested in moralizing: “The pursuit should also be for pleasure.”
McEwan spoke with David Remnick at a public event organized by the 92nd Street Y.
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