Abstract
This essay reads Ian McEwan's Black Dogs as “literature that sets out to transform history by bearing witness” (Shoshana Felman, “Camus' The Plague” 108). It argues this is achieved in large part by means of the novel's dialogic engagement with three intertexts: the classical genre that is pastoral, Arthur Koestler's “The Yogi and the Commissar,” and Albert Camus's The Plague.
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