Experience

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The memoir is also heavily footnoted ("to preserve the collateral thought") with additional asides (some of which are astoundingly off-point -- indeed, off almost any point). I contemplate a child of mine, and I can't believe that a creation in which I shared has gone on to gain such contour and quiddity and mass. that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop.

Whatever the peaks of candour, defensiveness and doggedness (and also, it should be said, sympathy, generosity and humour) scaled in Experience, it is nevertheless an extremely odd book. Experience is not quite a memoir, nor is it quite a portrait of his father, nor is it really an autobiography. Amis attributes this division to his feelings of embarrassment and guilt for the impulsive and naive decisions he made while younger. Thinking more about Martin Amis these days on reading some of his essays and shuffling around Inside Story to read shortly.The critic James Wood wrote in the Guardian: " Experience is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected. Son muchas las cosas de las que habla Martin Amis en su libro Experiencia, de los amigos, de los hijos, de las madres, de los padres, de la inocencia, de los antisociales, de la adolescencia, de crecer, de los libros, poco habla del amor y que alivio, ya muchos escriben del amor. So there is some incredible writing and good anecdotes and analysis and fun literary name-dropping, but there are also portions that just didn't feel print-worthy to me, and there are too many points where Martin gifts us with some breaking news -- e. It's probably appropriate that Experience and Speak, Memory are often compared, because Amis worships Nabokov, and you have to read them both with a pencil handy so you can underline and marvel over their brilliant sentences. Me quedan muchas cosas de ese libro, muchas cosas y profundas, vuelvo y digo que me siento realmente comprendida con las palabras, con las ideas con la historia y los sentimientos de este señor, comprendida en este punto de mi vida, vuelvo y digo que los libros me llegan en los momentos precisos.

Interessant sind zwei Themen, auf die Amis immer wieder zurück kommt: Zum einen seine Cousine Lucy, die dem berühmten Frauenmörder Frederick West zum Opfer fiel, und zum anderen seine ständigen Zahnschmerzen. ecco tutto questo, dicevo, concorre forse senza rilevanza statistica ma in modo decisivo a impastare scrittori che a me piacciono davvero tanto. He is the ‘deformed and scurrilous Greek’, compelled by his own baseness to see deformity everywhere” – didn’t enamour the biographer to the Amis family. This is not My Life and Loves - rather a pity in a way, but perhaps that will be the subject of a further volume of autobiography?The trouble with life is its amorphousness… thinly plotted, largely theme-less, sentimental and ineluctably trite. Le lettere che, con molta onestà, Martin introduce tra i paragrafi ci mostrano un giovane spocchiosetto sullo stile del protagonista di The Rachel papers, che arranca all'ombra di un padre ingombrante e pertanto deve farsi un'idea alla svelta dei grandi della letteratura prima di tentare l'esame per Oxford. In his clef-ish novel of London literary life, Brilliant Creatures (1983), Clive James said of the Hitchens-based character that the phrase 'no whit abashed' might have been invented for him. He was erratic, self-centered, opinionated, and loud, believing that these traits were useful in establishing himself as a modern Renaissance man. He readily acknowledges the nepotism that got him published and widely reviewed at the age of twenty-one.