Einstein's Monsters
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A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.
“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book”—Daily Telegraph
“A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours”—Sunday Times
An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.
The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'
“Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath”—Observer
“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book”—Daily Telegraph
“A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours”—Sunday Times
An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.
The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'
“Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath”—Observer
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Martin Amis. (2011). Einstein's Monsters. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book”—Daily Telegraph
“A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours”—Sunday Times
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The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'
“Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath”—Observer
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Kingsley's brilliant son, author of Success and Money, among others, continues to dazzle. This collection of stories is prefaced with an essay on the nuclear threat so trenchant and irrefutable that the book is worth reading for that alone. The stories that follow all carry through the same theme: the way in which images of fire, death and pollution undermine contemporary (and future) lives. Amis himself adduces influences on these tales as various as J. G. Ballard, Kafka, Borges and Saul Bellow; whatever the sources, they're all virtuoso exercises in dread. "Bujak and the Strong Force'' is about a Polish strongman who weakens in the face of pointless evil; ``Insight at Flame Lake'' tells a spooky story of a child's schizophrenia; ``The Little Puppy That Could'' is a brilliantly conceived vision of innocence and horror; ``The Time Disease,'' a glib, flashy postmodernist exercise, has an American tone amazingly right for a British writer, and ``The Immortals'' is a zany tale that reads like a poignant Mel Brooks, if that can be imagined. The blurb talks about Amis as being ``diabolically talented,'' and that's no exaggeration.
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``This collection of stories is prefaced with an essay on the nuclear threat so trenchant and irrefutable that the book is worth reading for that alone.'' The stories that follow are ``all virtuoso exercises in dread,'' said PW.
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