Martin Amis, een Engelse romanschrijver, essayist en korte verhalenverteller, verkent meesterlijk de absurditeit van de postmoderne conditie, waarbij hij de groteske karikaturen ervan met opvallende helderheid presenteert. Zijn kenmerkende stijl wordt gekenmerkt door een dwangmatige levendigheid, een bewijs van zijn diepgaande beheersing van de Engelse taal die onmiddellijk zijn unieke stem aankondigt. Vaak gezien als een chroniqueur van het hedendaagse leven, werd Amis erkend voor zijn onbevangen portrettering van wat 'de nieuwe onaangenaamheid' is genoemd. Zijn schrijven biedt een scherpe, vaak onrustige, maar altijd boeiende analyse van het moderne bestaan.
London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?
Een mislukte Londense romanschrijver smeedt complotten om een succesvolle collega en vriend te gronde te richten.
Het leven van een nazi-arts, die na de oorlog heeft weten ontvluchten, wordt achterstevoren verteld.
Set in the summer of 1970 in an Italian castle, the story explores the lives of young people navigating the sexual revolution. The girls defy traditional roles, while the boys remain unchanged, and Keith Nearing attempts to manipulate feminism for his own purposes.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize 'Surely his masterpieceâe¦ Intelligent, terrifying and comicâe¦ Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop asking them. Read it, ponder it âe" revel in it indeed âe" then read it again.' Allan Massie, Scotsman There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didnâe(tm)t show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul âe" it showed you who you really were. But the king couldnâe(tm)t look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul.
'Utterly compelling' Guardian Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead. So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts, encountering vibrant characters from Saul Bellow, to Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the person who captivated Amis' twenties, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps. Amis addresses our burning questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die?
The Rub of Time is Amis at his considered best, witty, erudite and unafraid... He is sweetly sentimental when it comes to the British royal family (why?), funny about tennis, always brilliant about the body, scorching in his refusal of death, its sorrows and humiliations... He is a great believer in semantic rigour; every sentence snaps with an accuracy that is fresh and fierce... This collection is full of treasures. Anne Enright Guardian
The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others.
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, this work gives us information about Stalin: Koba the Dread, losif the Terrible.
