Taking William Boyd's post-2000 novels as symptomatic of wider problems in British writing during the period of the break-up of Britain, this essay suggests that what looks, at first, like a simple collapse in Boyd's talent in fact has produced texts illuminating, in their limitations, the difficulties of British affiliation in the era of Britishness's ideological exhaustion. Boyd is, on this reading, an exemplary counter-example to the canon of self-consciously Scottish fiction more commonly studied in the years since 1979.

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权力下放后的英国小说：威廉博伊德的烹饪艺术

将威廉博伊德 2000 年后的小说作为英国解体时期英国写作中更广泛问题的征兆，这篇文章表明，乍一看，博伊德才华的简单崩溃实际上已经产生了具有启发性的文本，在他们的局限性，英国人在思想枯竭时代的英国归属困难。在这次阅读中，博伊德是自 1979 年以来更普遍研究的自觉苏格兰小说经典的典型反例。