Завершающее убийство немного сбавило мой пыл, надо сказать. На фоне ощущений от истории- ясность, достоверность, реальность- оно кажется каким-то "присобаченным". Правда интервью с Макьюэном разъяснило: "Amsterdam has a sort of comic-tragic end. I’m not sure I could build much social policy around it. I took a lot of liberty and I upset a lot of Dutch people. They sent me cross letters saying ‘you have misunderstood our laws’. It was a comic device at the end of Amsterdam and actually quite military. This would be bad law where you could say anyone who wished to end their life just needs a couple of signatures from doctors and it could all be arranged. It came out of an extended joke. I hike a lot with a scientist friend. We were always aware in our late 40s of youth ending and because we hiked a lot and skied a lot there is always a lot of gear and there is always someone forgetting something. We would joke and tease each other about the slow descent into being a buffer. Maybe forgetting the map is one of the earliest symptoms of something more serious in a neuro-pathological way, perhaps the first touch of Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia. So we said we ought to have an agreement that when the other one becomes noticeably loopy, the other one will get him to Amsterdam and have him bumped off. So ‘Amsterdam’ just became the shorthand for if my friend Ralph forgot to bring the map he was meant to bring, I would say ‘it’s Amsterdam for you.’ It was out of that joke that I then wrote this novel. That’s a rather highly choreographed attempt at mutual suicide, or indeed, mutual murder. "
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