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Bezig met laden... Other People: A Mystery Story (origineel 1981; editie 1982)door Martin Amis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Stylized language often perceptively detailed (river like dented armor), occasionally gets in the way of story of life after / in death, retribution, self-awareness and duality. Downwardly mobile in life, heroine climbs upwardly in death yet with corresponding deteriorating innocence. Mary Lamb / Amy Hide duality reflected in Prince Policeman / Prince Murderer characters, minimally fleshed out as they are not the subject of a Kafkaesque novel. Themes of Time, second chances, fatality. By the time I was finished with it, I was surprised to find that I enjoyed Martin Amis’ Other People (and, if you have seen my recently finished books, fiction at all). I like the ambiguity of the frame structure, and that the reader never gets full information on who the first-person narrator is or how they have all the information they do. Mary Lamb’s observations about the world were fresh, and Amis managed to avoid making her into a pathetic victim, which is remarkable considering the pain he puts her through. The question this story asks are about the nature of our society and the way we treat each other, about what we see and what we ignore because we’re used to it. It was engaging, and enough. Other People isn't a tale of Visitation. The just sleep of the Elect isn't to be shattered by ghostly moralizing. The world of our entitlement is instead simply upended, allowing the dark bits to pour to the fore. London is revealed through a Ballardian lens. Colors and smells are enhanced, but thinking is pruned, reduced to Money, Sex Death. The title refers to Hell. We harbor such within. It is nursed at our breast. Martin Amis is astonishing.
"an ingenious and mischievous piece of writing, nothing like a mystery with a tidy ending...a tour de force." "Amis has done something important in 'Other People.'" "Other People is 'about' a descent into Hell, Hell being 'other people'-- it's a very strange and impressive performance." "For all its savagery... Other People is a funny book... an achievement light years ahead of his earlier novels." Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)
Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong... Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Still, any book that provokes such strong feelings is one worth reading. Might not be for those not yet initated into the dark, seedy world of Martin Amis. Be warned. ( )