Global Courant 2023-05-21 01:54:51
NEW YORK — British novelist Martin Amis, who brought rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has passed away. He turned 73.
His death on Friday at his Florida home from cancer of the esophagus was confirmed on Saturday by his agent, Andrew Wylie.
Amis was the son of another British writer, Kingsley Amis. Martin Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his close friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie.
Among his most famous works were ‘Money’, a satire on consumerism in London, ‘The Information’ and ‘London Fields’, along with his 2000 memoir, ‘Experience’.
Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Amis’ 2014 novel “The Zone of Interest” premiered Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, about a Nazi commander who lives with his family next to Auschwitz, received some of the best reviews at the festival.
The Holocaust was the subject of Amis’s novel “Time’s Arrow” and Josef Stalin’s reign in Russia in “House of Meetings,” examples of how his writings explored the dark soul.
“Violence is what I hate most, what baffles me and what disgusts me most,” Amis told The Associated Press in 2012. start writing you realize you’ve been pondering it, but not consciously. It’s terribly mysterious.”
Amis was a celebrity in her own right, his life often chronicled by the London tabloids since his 1973 debut, “The Rachel Papers.”
“He was the king – an extraordinary stylist, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite and fearless writer and a truly wonderful man,” said Michal Shavit, his editor in England. “He has been so important and formative to so many readers and writers over the past half century. Every time he released a new book, it was an event.”
Critic Michiko Kakutani wrote of Amis in The New York Times in 2000 that “he is a writer equipped with an awe-inspiring arsenal of literary gifts: a dizzying, chameleon-like command of language, a willingness to tackle big issues and larger social canvases, and a relentless, heat-seeking eye for the unhealthy ferment of contemporary life.”
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