![]() Bach’s prelude seems to the 11-year-old Roland “like a pine forest in winter his private labyrinth of cold sorrow. Lessons begins with a piano lesson remembered with sensory immediacy. The solipsism and pathos of this project are on display, along with a glimmer of grace. Roland is attempting to make sense of his life as lessons – stories of cause and effect. The novel’s central character, Roland Baines, reveals a writerly consciousness at work. ![]() ![]() These hallmarks persist in Lessons, but the inclusion of autobiographical details – like McEwan, the novel’s protagonist grows up in North Africa in a British military family and discovers late in life that he has a brother – is a new experiment in vulnerability. ![]()
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