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Martin Amis with his great friend Christopher Hitchens, the journalist and essayist. Photograph: Alamy Martin Amis, (born August 25, 1949, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died May 19, 2023, Lake Worth, Florida, U.S.), English satirist known for his virtuoso storytelling technique and his dark views of contemporary English society.

So quintessentially English sich dieses Buch auch für deutsche Leser zunächst ausnehmen mag, so muß man doch weder ein Faible für die angelsächsische Spezialität eines durch brachialen Humor auf ein verträgliches Maß gestutzten Selbsthasses haben noch sich brennend für die englische Literatur oder gar fär die Amises interessieren, um daran Gefallen zu finden" - Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung He summed up that period in which he lived so very well, of getting over the baby boom, of Britain rediscovering itself as perhaps not as important as it had been, but certainly as a country very proud of its literary heritage. His UK editor, Michal Shavit, said: “It’s hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis in it. He was the king – a stylist extraordinaire, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite and fearless writer, and a truly wonderful man. It's a good enough read, and an entertaining one, and certainly of interest to anyone who is interested in Kingsley Amis and Martin's relationship with his father.Amis released two collections of short stories ( Einstein's Monsters and Heavy Water) and five volumes of collected journalism and criticism ( The Moronic Inferno, Visiting Mrs Nabokov, The War Against Cliché, The Second Plane and The Rub of Time). [35] While he was writing Money, he wrote a guide to arcade video games of the 1970s and 1980s, Invasion of the Space Invaders, which he later allowed to go out of print. [98] [99] a b Kean, Danuta (7 December 2016). "Martin Amis working on novel about Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin". The Guardian. Calcutt, Andrew (2001). Brit Cult: An A-z of British Pop Culture. Contemporary Books. p.25. ISBN 978-0-8092-9324-7. Harrowing or not Amis did wed, repeatedly, before he hit 70, but there is not much about that here. The 90s saw his dental problems become a bizarre media fixation: he retaliated, gloriously, with the all-you-can-eat dentist-surgery horrors of his 2000 memoir Experience. Less reparable, his marriage broke up. He married Isabel Fonseca, an American-Uruguayan journalist and author, in 1996. Their daughters, Fernanda and Clio, were born in 1997 and 1999.

Only with difficulty could you imagine her having the inclination to vanish; but it was the work of a moment to imagine her having the will. So she was in a nunnery, somewhere; she was a violinist in Melbourne, a pseudonymous poet in Montreal. Of course, these reveries kept running up against an obstacle: the fact that Lucy was gentle, was kind, was sane. To which the one available rejoinder would be: well, I must have been wrong about that, and I suppose it can deeply surprise you, the people who turn out to be prepared to disseminate hurt. Thus the argument continued (very faintly after a while, and then almost inaudibly, given my distance from the event) for 21 years. Perhaps Martin presupposes that his readers are familiar with the details; still, it is an odd way of "setting the record straight". His views on radical Islamism earned him the contentious sobriquet "Blitcon" (British literary neoconservative) from Ziauddin Sardar, who labelled Amis as such in the New Statesman. [132] [n 4] Euthanasia [ edit ] London Fields (1989), Amis's longest and "most London" novel, [46] describes the encounters between three main characters in London in 1999, as a climate disaster approaches. The characters have typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, "the fool, the foil, the poor foal" who is destined to come between the other two. [47] But the terrible imponderable was what had happened to her when she was still alive. Records showed that just after midnight on the morning of January 3 1974, West appeared at the casualty department of Gloucester Royal Hospital with a serious laceration to the right hand. "It seems only too possible that she was kept alive for several days," writes one commentator. And yet the evidence remains entirely circumstantial. "It is possible," writes another, "that [West's] wound occurred as a result of the dismemberment of a corpse, but it is just as possible that it did not, which is the inference I should prefer the family to make."

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I haven't been able to bring myself to tell Gully that I don't think our living together will work and it's getting to be pretty worrying since we're supposed to be looking for suitable places to live.

It affected Amis, obviously, and he conveys this convincingly -- and still the reader feels manipulated. A) balanced, haunting work of memory and memorial, a surprisingly gentle meditation on fathers and sons, mortality, the loss of innocence, divorce, friendship, love -- what Amis calls "the main events," those "ordinary miracles and ordinary disasters" that shape you and define you and remain forever in your blood and being." - Andrew Roe, Salon Keulks, Gavin (2011). Shaffer, Brian W. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set. John Wiley & Sons. pp.13–15. ISBN 978-1-4051-9244-6. In January 2011, it was announced that Amis would be stepping down from his university position at the end of the current academic year. [104] Of his time teaching creative writing at the University of Manchester, Amis was quoted as saying, "teaching creative writing at Manchester has been a joy" and that he had "become very fond of my colleagues, especially John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire". [105] He added that he "loved doing all the reading and the talking; and I very much took to the Mancunians. They are a witty and tolerant contingent". [105] Amis was succeeded in this position by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín in September 2011. [105] Leader, Zachary (2009). The Life of Kingsley Amis. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p.614. ISBN 978-0-307-49645-4.

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McWhorter, Diane (1977). "An Ugly Joke: "Dead Babies" ". The North American Review. 262 (1): 72. ISSN 0029-2397. JSTOR 25117878 . Retrieved 21 May 2023. At certain times, for certain periods, David was able to persuade himself that Lucy was still alive - alive, but elsewhere. Naturally all the Partingtons attempted something of the kind. My mother, too, attempted it. I attempted it. Lucy was serious, resolute, artistic, musical and religious. Even when we were children, the message I always took away from Lucy was that she wasn't going to be deflected, she wasn't going to be deterred. In 1987, when I was at university studying English literature, Martin Amis came to town for a reading and signing at the student bookstore. He was a literary celebrity, this being an era in which those two words could be juxtaposed without

Bradshaw, Peter (5 May 2010). "The BBC's Money adaptation plots a course to Saturn 3". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 May 2023. All the paternity nonsense functions in a funny way as a sort of tonal bridge between the Withnailish capers of youthful Mart and the Hitch in Soho (Mornings in the pub, grappa after lunch; how did the New Statesman ever get published when they were on staff? The dutiful, tidy-desked Julian Barnes, one supposes) and the losses of later life. It’s a reminder that Amis’s life is extravagantly peopled, for someone who sits at his desk for much of the time. And this is before we get on to Iris Murdoch, stepmother Elizabeth Jane Howard, much more about Kingsley and Hilly; and then Trump, and all the countries that, impishly, Amis decides to cast as characters in his geopolitical musings, Israel and America chief among them (“If Israel were a person, what kind of person would Israel be? Well, male, anyway – male, for a start”). In 2010, he said: "I'm an agnostic, which is the only rational position. It's not because I feel a God or think that anything resembling the banal God of religion will turn up. But I think that atheism sounds like a proof of something, and it's incredibly evident that we are nowhere near intelligent enough to understand the universe ... Writers are above all individualists, and above all writing is freedom, so they will go off in all sorts of directions. I think it does apply to the debate about religion, in that it's a crabbed novelist who pulls the shutters down and says, there's no other thing. Don't use the word God: but something more intelligent than us ... If we can't understand it, then it's formidable. And we understand very little." [136] Bibliography [ edit ] Novels [ edit ] a b c d e Alexandra Topping (15 February 2007). "Students, meet your new tutor: Amis, the enfant terrible, turns professor". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 February 2007. The novel I'm working on is blindingly autobiographical, but with an Islamic theme. It's called A Pregnant Widow, because at the end of a revolution you don't have a newborn child, you have a pregnant widow. And the pregnant widow in this novel is feminism. Which is still in its second trimester. The child is nowhere in sight yet. And I think it has several more convulsions to undergo before we'll see the child." [73]

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In 2015, Amis criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an article for The Sunday Times, describing him as "humourless" and "under-educated". [125] a b Bradford, Richard (3 November 2011). "Bibliography". Martin Amis: The Biography. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-84901-850-0. Martin Amis, Ian Buruma (5 October 2007). Monsters (flash). The New Yorker (Conversation). New York City . Retrieved 8 March 2008. Martin Amis with his father, Kingsley Amis, at the Booker Prize award ceremony at the Guildhall, London, 1991. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

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