is Martin Amis’s twenty-fifth book, and although its subtitle on the title page and dustjacket classifies it as “A Novel”, much of it appears to be autobiographical, a successor to
Experience(2000) – and, like
Experience, it has expansive footnotes, illustrations, and an index, all features usually associated with nonfiction rather than fiction. The text itself asserts its status as autobiography: its opening section links it with “the huge sub-genre now known as ‘life-writing’” (xix) and it is later called a “novel [that] is not loosely but fairly strictly autobiographical” (30) and “a novelised autobiography” (83). But Amis – we shall call the narrator by this name for convenience, without implying an absolute continuity between the real author…
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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Inside Story". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 August 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40547, accessed 27 November 2024.]
