From Solidarity to Schisms. 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US. Ed. Cara Cilano

This collection begins with Magali Cornier Michael’s essay “Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Ian McEwan’s Saturday,” whose reading of McEwan’s novel is united intertextually with reflections on Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway. McEwan’s 2005 work is seen to emulate Woolf’s own classic exploration of the impact of World War I on the psyche of its characters while “highlighting the absurdity and impossibility of any clear demarcation between the domestic and public sphere.”