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Forays into the Scientific Mindset: The Two Cultures in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Solar

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The paper discusses two recent novels, Saturday (2005) and Solar (2010) written by a distinguished contemporary novelist Ian McEwan in the context of C. P. Snow’s famous lecture The Two Cultures. As the paper suggests, McEwan should be listed among the narrow group of British literary intellectuals living today who follow C. P. Snow’s recommendations and try to bridge the gap between the worlds of science and the humanities. Both Saturday and Solar, the author of the paper argues, successfully demonstrate how science may become a rewarding and rich source of inspiration for a novelist.