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Hello,
I thought some might be interested to know about a review of Martin
Amis's _The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000_
from the Boston Globe. After describing Amis's admiration for Ballard
and
Burroughs, Poet Adam Kirsch writes,
But the god of his idolatry is Nabokov; the last essay in the book, and
the best, is a celebration of ''Lolita,'' full of loving quotation. His
description of his copy of the novel, its margins ''a Pompeiian litter
of ticks, queries, exclamation marks, and lines straight and squiggly
and doubled and tripled,'' is a good metaphor for his critical
technique.
You can find the full review on-line at
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/034/living/Amis_s_instructive_passion_for_
writingP.shtml
or see C5 of the Boston Globe from Feb 3.
Cheers,
matthew
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Matthew Beedham
Department of English
Malaspina University-College
900 Fifth Street
Nanaimo, British Columbia
V9R 5S5, Canada
(250) 753-3245 x2045
beedhamm@mala.bc.ca
Hello,
I thought some might be interested to know about a review of Martin
Amis's _The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000_
from the Boston Globe. After describing Amis's admiration for Ballard
and
Burroughs, Poet Adam Kirsch writes,
But the god of his idolatry is Nabokov; the last essay in the book, and
the best, is a celebration of ''Lolita,'' full of loving quotation. His
description of his copy of the novel, its margins ''a Pompeiian litter
of ticks, queries, exclamation marks, and lines straight and squiggly
and doubled and tripled,'' is a good metaphor for his critical
technique.
You can find the full review on-line at
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/034/living/Amis_s_instructive_passion_for_
writingP.shtml
or see C5 of the Boston Globe from Feb 3.
Cheers,
matthew
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Matthew Beedham
Department of English
Malaspina University-College
900 Fifth Street
Nanaimo, British Columbia
V9R 5S5, Canada
(250) 753-3245 x2045
beedhamm@mala.bc.ca