British novelist Martin Amis died this Friday at the age of 73 At his residence in Lake Worth, Florida (USA)as reported the new York Times, Esophageal cancer which he had suffered for years became the cause of death, As also confirmed by his wife, Isabel Fonseca, a writer. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival that same Friday. area of interestin which director Jonathan Glazer adapted his 2014 novel of the same name about the Nazi Holocaust.
Amis was one of the most recognized writers in the English language of the past 50 years. He was considered one of the most brilliant pen writers of his generation, with such prominent figures of letters as Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Christopher Hitchens.
author’s work london ground He drew attention to the subject of the excesses of capitalism in the Western world, which he saw as touched upon by the absurd, so it was common for him to use satire and caricature in his books. Among his influences were Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, while many British writers such as Will Self or Jadie Smith regarded him as a reference. The main tool he used to understand the world was humor.
She is probably the author with the most problematic parent-child relationship since Sylvia Plath. His father was also a novelist, Kingsley Amis, one of the greats of British literature, as the author of The Summit. lucky gym (1954). Martin struggles to escape his father’s shadow, creating his own style to distance himself as much as possible. Another indispensable figure in his life path was the writer Christopher Hitchens, with whom he maintained a close friendship.
Amis also served as an old-fashioned intellectual and polemicist, appearing frequently in the media with views that were often controversial. He had some unmistakable ‘gentleman’ charm, and tremendous vitality with which he easily won over his interlocutors.
Born in Swansea in 1949, he studied at Oxford and received a Dmade his brilliant debut as a novelist with book of rachel, Awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1973. Throughout his career he pursued the novel strongly, but he also wrote notable works of non-fiction.
Afterwards dead child (1974), Success (1978) and others, a mystery story (1981), his name became known around the world for his London trilogy: Wealth (1984), a reference novel that featured a sex-obsessed character in its most perverse and commercial version, paranormal london ground (1989) and Information (Nineteen ninety five). The terror of the 20th century, the sexual emancipation of the 60s or the sensationalist press were also some of his concerns in his literary and essay works.
Amis has contributed to such magazines as the Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman and The Observer. He was also a professor at the University of Manchester, where he taught classes on “creative writing”. He was married to Isabel Fonseca, also a novelist, and was the father of two daughters.