English novelist and essayist, son of Kingsley Amis. Author of The Rachel Papers (Il Dossier Rachel), Koba the Dread (Koba il Terribile) and La zona d'interesse. Born 25 August 1949, died 19 May 2023.

Born 25 August 1949; died 19 May 2023. Son of Kingsley Amis. Debut novel The Rachel Papers (1973) won the Somerset Maugham Award. Last major works published into the 2010s (including a 2014 novel and 2020 memoir/novel).

Three DeBaser reviews by Stanlio praise Martin Amis's linguistic virtuosity and moral engagement across essays and novels. The reviews discuss Stalinism, the Gulag, the Holocaust, and a witty coming-of-age novel. Amis is credited with rigorous research and a punchy, sometimes shocking style.

For:Readers of literary fiction, historical fiction, literary criticism, and modern 20th-century history.

 

p.s. I repeat, I don’t know if these things are minimally described in school history books nor if they will be taught in the future, but they certainly should be, in honor of that truth of which “Koba the Dread” was insanely afraid.

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seemed raw ... Not the writing. It was terribly alive. The craft. The sex. The settings... [were] all incredibly mocking.

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I had read a handful of his books several years ago, and this one from 2014 is the last of his translations in Italian.

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