Anonymous
7/8/2025, 10:52:03 PM No.24532389
>Darts, Keith
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 4:11:16 AM No.24533000
Yeah, cheers.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:12:30 PM No.24533729
Will Amis be remembered in 50 years? I think not.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:58:42 PM No.24533810
>>24533729
Is he remembered now? When he died the notices and articles were all from men of a certain age and background and the gist was ‘you just had to be there man’ rather than making a case for his literary greatness.
The problem with LF and Money is he puts all the heavy lifting on embodying this hard edged lower class London voice which is the last thing he was actually capable of.
Nabokov can very convincingly do a pretentious emigre European sneering at America, Amis is incapable of doing the same for his protagonists and it never quite works.
Is he remembered now? When he died the notices and articles were all from men of a certain age and background and the gist was ‘you just had to be there man’ rather than making a case for his literary greatness.
The problem with LF and Money is he puts all the heavy lifting on embodying this hard edged lower class London voice which is the last thing he was actually capable of.
Nabokov can very convincingly do a pretentious emigre European sneering at America, Amis is incapable of doing the same for his protagonists and it never quite works.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:09:32 PM No.24533827
>>24533810
Who, then, working in the same mode does it better than Amis?
Who, then, working in the same mode does it better than Amis?
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:25:16 PM No.24533846
>>24533827
James Kelman, Jake Arnott, David Keenan, Graham Swift, even Irvine Welsh do that side of life better than Amis.
I sometimes wonder why he kept doing it, perhaps trying to make up for being the most gilded youth in English fiction
James Kelman, Jake Arnott, David Keenan, Graham Swift, even Irvine Welsh do that side of life better than Amis.
I sometimes wonder why he kept doing it, perhaps trying to make up for being the most gilded youth in English fiction
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:32:28 AM No.24535717
>>24533810
>he puts all the heavy lifting on embodying this hard edged lower class London voice which is the last thing he was actually capable of
Hardly. Keith Talent, in particular, is a satirical caricature, the product of Amis' bourgeois snobbery.
>he puts all the heavy lifting on embodying this hard edged lower class London voice which is the last thing he was actually capable of
Hardly. Keith Talent, in particular, is a satirical caricature, the product of Amis' bourgeois snobbery.