Satanic arrogance.(Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million)(Book Review)

Modern Age | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

MARTIN AMIS, WHO BEGAN as a journalist with The New Statesman in the early 1970s and then moved to the writing of novels, quickly established his reputation as keen observer of contemporary social and moral decay. His analyses were never tendentious: no reflexive blaming of all woes on the usual suspects of the left-liberal imagination. On the contrary, on big canvasses like those of London Fields (1989) and Information (1995) he told insistently how his characters managed to be the authors, the petty lapsed gods, of their own petty worlds of misery, or occasionally the ...

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