Literature as a way of life sometimes explodes with a work that stands on the threshold of the narrative, the chronic and the biographical. And that ends up being the most sincere exercise of the writer that mixes inspirations, evocations, memories, experiences ... Just what Martin Amis offers us in this book that contains metalliterature made life and argument of the always transcendent observer who is every writer.
martin amis explores lived experiences, evokes people important to him and reflects on writing as the art of telling and making sense of stories. Are we facing some fictionalized memories? Faced with a novel based on episodes from one's own life? Faced with an essay on the power of literature? Before the review of a literary career and a life? This ambitious project, written without a net and without restrictions, is all this and a few other things.
Three fundamental figures for the author as a person and as a writer parade through these pages: the mentor Saul bellow in his last years of life, the friend and companion of so many adventures Christopher Hitchens faced his early death, and the lonely, sullen and brilliant Philip Larkin whose poetry has always accompanied Amis. Other writers also appear, including Father Kingsley, and also the sister who died too early from problems with alcohol, and the devilish love affairs of youth, and family life with wife and daughters, England and the United States, terrorism, anti-Semitism and especially the word, literature ...
Written in the wake –and as an overcoming– of Experience, his previous foray into memorialism, From inside it is a book that escapes easy confinement, a kind of total literary experience. A must for any lover of the work of Amis and an indispensable book for anyone interested in the possibilities of making the most of literature, memory and life.
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