Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis (English) Paperback Book

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In five cataclysmic short stories Amis creates perplexing visions of post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair.

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'In five cataclysmic stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair' Daily MailAn ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation- '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters- not fully human, not for now.'

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'In five cataclysmic stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair' Daily Mail

Author Biography

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.

Review

A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours * Sunday Times *Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath * Observer *Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book * Daily Telegraph *

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'In five cataclysmic stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair' Daily Mail

Kirkus US Review

Six stories and a polemical introductory essay, each of them about nuclear destruction. Weaving and passionate and un-neat, the essay may be best of all, whatever the merits of its arguments (Amis sides with Jonathan Schell, claiming that he is of a haunted generation to which nuclear weapons can't be just some unthought hidden nightmare). But the stories will disappoint: one's a shameless Bellow-clone ("Bujak and the Strong Force"); one a toneless post-Apocalypse fable ("The Little Puppy That Could"); and the one in which Amis' swing seems loosest, most comfortable - "The Time Disease" (a complete inversion of today's society, in a future when age means health and an attack of youth is like getting AIDS) - marshals some of Amis' brilliant jaundice but gives it nowhere especially to go at such short length. So, sober purpose and cri-de-coeur aside, it's a book that ultimately reads like pure razzmatazz ("I remember what the sky was like, when the sky was young - its shawls and fleeces, its bears and whales, its cusps and clefts. A sky of gray, a sky of blue, a sky of spice. But now the sky has gone, and we face different heavens") - style doing content's chores. Amis is an important writer because his nose is so close up to the very worst, very most self-compromising. But here the nose lifts a little, to look down in sorrow - and the angling just doesn't come off. (Kirkus Reviews)

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A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours

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"In five cataclysmic stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair." -- Daily Mail

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Details ISBN0099768917 Author Martin Amis ISBN-10 0099768917 ISBN-13 9780099768913 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Birth 1949 Media Book Language English Pages 128 Publisher Vintage Publishing UK Release Date 1999-06-03 Year 1999 Publication Date 1999-06-03 AU Release Date 1999-06-03 NZ Release Date 1999-06-03 Audience General Alternative 9781446401439 We've got this

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