Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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First circulation or publication 2001

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England (Country of Origin)

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Martin Amis has been, from his first appearances in print, an accomplished and thoroughly professional reviewer and journalist: lucid, concise, informed, informative, funny, perceptive and provocative. He has also been unusual for his close focus on style.

The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000

(2001) is his third collection of reviews and essays previously published in newspapers and magazines. Unlike his two previous collections,

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

(1986) and

Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions

(1993), it contains no interviews but it is considerably longer; whereas

The Moronic Inferno

contained 27 pieces and

Visiting Mrs Nabokov

33,

The War Against Cliché

assembles 99 reviews and essays spanning 29 years of journalism. They make up a…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 September 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10622, accessed 27 November 2024.]

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