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The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It is his second novel, and is set in an unnamed city (though the detailed description strongly suggests Venice).
The Comfort of Strangers is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Schrader, and starring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, and Helen Mirren. The screenplay by Harold Pinter was adapted from the 1981 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan .
Jan 1, 1981 · The comfort of strangers is one of the earliest McEwan’s works but we already can discern here typical to his writing obsessions that would become his hallmark. Dash of macabre, menace, quirk, meanness and surreal aura; though, to his credit, in his later works these ingredients are much better balanced.
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'Gothic Literature from a Cultural Ecological Perspective: Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers', Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day . Ed.
Adapting the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter lends his trademark unnerving dialogue and air of creeping menace to this spellbinding study of power, control, and the frighteningly thin line between pleasure and pain.
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Jun 15, 1981 · The sexual imagination doubtless has its bloody excess; this novel, by a writer of enormous talent, is definitely diseased. A version of this article appears in print on of the National edition ...
Atonement is as much a novel of ideas as Black Dogs or Enduring Love, as socially acute as Amsterdam, as dangerously violent as The Comfort of Strangers, as sexy as Cement Garden—yet in Atonement these diverse elements are masterfully integrated.
