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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dead Babies (1975)di Martin Amis
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Like a British version of Less Than Zero but without empathy for any of its characters. Goes from being the sex and drug parties of privileged scumbags to close with absurd and meaningless violence. Gets an extra star for good, though self-satisfied writing. Avoid. ( ) I didn't like any of the characters and it seemed to be written by a writer on speed himself. I know about the writer's obsession with Nabokov and therefore I don't trust any of the characters. The novel is some topsy turvy version of an Agatha Christie story. God I sometimes hated it and the next moment I was still intrigued by it. There are moments of almost real laughter as with most Martin Amis novels, but most of the time the novel is just grotesquely disturbing. The ideals of the sixties have gone and the only thing that stays is a world packed with decadent rich fuckers all disturbed by those same ideals. Of course you feel sorry for them, but then you still realise that it is all no excuse for their behaviour. On the other hand the novel is nothing more that a typical English black humour feast part of the same tradition as Bottom and The Young Ones. In that light the characters are all real life actors who become the victims of this utterly black world created by the writer and his accomplice. I have never been intrigued by this version of English humour - it actually bores me a lot. Nevertheless, because of the psychological background of the characters and the confusing ending the novel is worth more than the tv-series afore mentioned. Over all it's an okay book that at least confuses you and makes you laugh the next second.
"Amis' second novel ranks among his most incendiary with its mordant wit, black comedy, and sense of the violently absurd." Elenchi di rilievo
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent on bon-vivants ensconsed at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an halluncinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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