A collection of five short stories creating perplexing visions of the post-nuclear-holocaust world, from the author of "The Rachel papers", which won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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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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This is a well-meaning collection, crafted with all the earnest diligence of a passionate yet rather stolid social worker. I love the introduction, it articulates better than anything I've ever read the true issues and dangers posed by the arms race. Given its subject matter, eloquence, and emotional clout, it is one of the most important essays I've read in years.
But after this exciting beginning, the stories are a wash-out. The writing is clever, but usually too clever; there never seems to be any emotional investment in the characters or their conflicts. Because Amis's overwhelming motive was didacticism, his plots are populated by vehicles and symbols not human beings. The stories become thinly scratched fables, yet without even the insightful morals provided by Aesop. Often it is embarrassing to see all the work Amis puts into dressing up and "proving" a point to us, that is already a foregone conclusion. The science fiction settings and the variety of viewpoints (one speaker is an American expatriate Jew) are interesting, but I continually hear that sober social worker's timbre droning in my ears....
I'm trying to think of who would enjoy this book. Science fiction fans will be disappointed by Amis's half-baked scenarios, fans of emotional fiction will be bored by his shallowness, and fellow disarmament supporters will feel patronized. So--only for uncritical members of the Martin Amis cult, who consider his every jotting to be solid gold.
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The synopsis has it wrong - well, not wrong so much as not right. Amis delivers not a caveat, nor a sci-fi pomo romp, but a startlingly clear elucidation of his very justified fear of the end of the story of man. It couldn't be more inevitable, as Amis makes clear in the introductory essay, "Unthinkability." He has identified the source of his nausea for the last 50 years, and it is nuclear weapons. There is no turning back; there is no "winning"; and there is no fixing the mistakes. These burn indelible in his writing, and he makes these points neither to make us all lose sleep nor to educate us. Rather, Amis tells it like it is: there is no tomorrow after a nuclear war, and there is no way a nuclear war is able to be isolated to one bomb dropping. Once the accident happens, we are all screwed, and at this point we are on borrowed time. The stories, if you are unfamiliar with Amis's style, are charming and compelling, and in some cases only abstrusely about nuclear war. The one real notable exception is "The Little Puppy That Could," truly the most horrifying tale I have ever encountered. A slim read, a permanent addition to any bookshelf, Einstein's Monsters reminds us what it is that is catching in our throats nowadays - the very life-force of all human history.
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Martin Amis has found the ideal forum to compliment his writing in Tina Browns latest attempt to prove that she has all the literary acumen of a Beverly Hills hair dresser, Talk magazine. Lets just hope for the sake of good writing that Suicide runs in Mr. Amis's family.
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