Experience

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Martin Amis se consolida cada vez mas como uno de mis autores favoritos sino el favorito, ya me compre uno de sus últimos libros La Casa de los Encuentros, única novela de amor escrita por el, y siendo la única de amor no se hará esperar mucho, dice Amis que nunca había sufrido tanto escribiendo un libro como ese.

The letters from an adolescent Amis to his father and stepmother, lodged in between chapters, don't really add much substance. Kingsley is an enigma: he refused to drive and refused to fly, and couldn’t easily be alone in a bus, a train or a lift, or in a house after dark.Far from setting the record straight Amis seems to have largely obscured it (except, perhaps, some of the stuff about the teeth, and the fact that everyone cried at Kingsley's funeral -- the only facts he really seems to care about). peraltro leggendo amis mi sono trovata più volte a pensare a quest’ultimo e alla sua auto/bio/grafia con aggiunta di dimensione leggendaria. Amis wrote Experience mainly to qualify and refine stories about his life that had captured the public imagination despite being, in his view, inaccurate. This is certainly an area where KA wins out, as his book is designed to concentrate on one individual – and sometimes one anecdote – at a time.

He doesn't complain, as he could so easily do, of the downsides and disadvantages of such a connection. Ma anche un’informazione sommaria nulla può togliere al fascino di una scrittura impeccabile e di una storia trascinante; sono molte storie, in realtà, che si avvicendano: dai solidi legami famigliari alla persecuzione del mal di denti; dalla tragica sorte toccata alla giovane cugina Lucy Partington alla furiosa rottura dell’amicizia con Julian Barnes; dall’affettuoso rapporto con la “matrigna”Jane Elizabeh Howard fino alla straziante morte del padre.Even if you’re not a fiftysomething intellectual from a time when people had staunch political stances and voiced ‘radical’ opinions among the bourgeois highbrow crowd, you should find this memoir a touching portrait of an unconventional and privileged upbringing. What seems at first just gossip and guestlists - sprays of names offered without explanation, diaristic footnotes, a refusal to universalise - soon becomes a kind of tender defiance, as if Amis wanted the book to vibrate with an atmosphere of wounded privacy.