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In this essay, I use Ian McEwan’s 1997 novel  Enduring Love  to indicate the way McEwan turns the theme of appearance and reality established in  Don Quixote  from a herald of radical freedom into an instrument of skepticism, containment, and control. Whereas the  Quixote  used fictionality to open liberatory pathways not only for Don Quixote and other characters but also for readers, McEwan’s novels use the tools of fiction to foreclose the imaginative flights indicative of hope. Although McEwan’s novels are as stylistically accomplished and as adept at manipulating the play of appearance and reality as any in the English language, they serve a political program of reaction, one related to class prejudice and, perhaps surprisingly, to McEwan’s atheism and love of science. The relationship of McEwan’s characters to fictional truth is, like the author’s, nuanced and complex. No novelist can entirely disavow fictionality, but in  Enduring Love ,  Atonement , and  Sweet Tooth  McEwan consistently treats fiction – sometimes coded as fantasy, mystery, imagination, or faith – either as a symptom of derangement or as a means of redirecting readers toward the truth of rationality, objectivity, and materiality. If Don Quixote charges in the name of imagination and hope, McEwan’s novels stand for the windmills that unmount him.

Changing Horses: The Legacy of the Quixote in the Novels of Ian McEwan