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Ian McEwan’s anti-Brexit satire is a damp squib

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

Kafka wrote a novella, The Metamorphosis, about a man who finds himself transformed into a beetle. Now Ian McEwan has written one about a beetle that is transformed into a man. He’s not the first writer to have thought of doing this, but he might be the first one who thought it was a good idea.

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