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At June’s old house in France (Part Three), Jeremy feels her presence and seems to hear the couple’s voices.
L’amore avvincente che univa June al suo promesso sposo Bernard, col quale condivideva oltre la passione una visione del mondo di dichiarata impronta marxista, s’incrina a partire da questo momento.Black Dogs" is a strange combination of the early McEwan and the later McEwan, not that the two are ultimately separated by more than the author's age and the benefit of hindsight.
Kakutani said that the reader is ultimately “intrigued and provoked but also vaguely undernourished", describing the novel as "absorbing yet vexing”. The novel is evidently intended to tip the reader backwards and forwards between these two irreconcilable credos.McBride of The Harvard Crimson praised McEwan's psychological insight and argued, “ Black Dogs challenges us to confront the tension we all feel in the meeting of science and religion, the rational and the irrational. To quote the book again, for this feeling applies to reaching the end of the novel, You know how it is when you've been with someone so intensely for hours on end, and then you're on your own again.