Soluciones creativas: “There’s very little you cannot discuss with a ten year old”/ Ian McEwan
“Of course, there’s subject matter that one avoids. But there’s very little you cannot discuss with a ten year old, if you can find the right language. And I’ve always liked a clear, precise, and simple prose of the kind I think children would enjoy and understand. I avoided any moral heavy breathing—I don’t like children’s fiction that tells them how to behave. I wrote the chapters as twenty-five-minute bedtime stories and read them to my sons. I incorporated various familiar household details—our cat, the untidy drawer in the kitchen, and so on. […] Children are not going to sit back and admire the grace and density of your imagery. They want the language to work on them and take them right into the thing itself. They want to know what happens. Perhaps that kind of invisibility belongs to an age of lost innocence, and is therefore all the more appropriate in a children’s book”.
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