Search results for "Martin Ami"

‘The World Will Make Sense’: Time’s Arrow di Martin Amis e l’inversione temporale come metafora della logica rovesciata dell’olocausto

2004

‘Here there is no why’: Creating Life from Death in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence

2012

During the 1990s, British writers paid a growing attention to the controversial subject of the holocaust. Their interest was a response to the long-standing debate on the possibilities of representing the tragic collective experience of concentration camps in art and literature. On this point, Theodor Adorno asserted that art can only have a marginal role, since it runs the risk of “aestheticizing”, de-historicising and even giving meaning to the devastating experience of an entire community of people. More recently, in an interview-discussion centred on Adorno’s theory, Martin Amis pointed out that art has instead the power and the responsibility to keep memory alive and to make individual…

'Speeding Your Way to Darkness': suicidio postmoderno e ricerca d'identità in "Night Train" di Martin Amis

2003