Последние издания книг Мартина Луиса Эмиса

Роман классика английской литературы Мартина Эмиса — это глубоко оригинальное, отчасти провокативное высказывание, по-новому фиксирующее внимание на теме Холокоста и Второй мировой войны. Эмис привносит в разговор об ужасах прошлого интонации и оттенки, никогда прежде не звучавшие в подобном контексте. «Зона интересов» — это одновременно и любовный роман (двое из трех героев-рассказчиков — комендант концлагеря и служащий в нем офицер — любят одну женщину, а третий — еврей-заключенный — готов на убийство или самоубийство ради спасения жены, попавшей в лапы нацистов), и антивоенная сатира в лучших традициях «Бравого солдата Швейка» (комендант лагеря выведен в откровенно комических и гротескных тонах), и классический пример литературной полифонии. Однако ключевая идея романа выходит далеко за рамки предсказуемых «всюду жизнь» и «банальность зла»: мелодраматизм и обманчивая легкость сюжета служат Эмису лишь средством, позволяющим ярче высветить абсурдность и трагизм ситуации.
В 2023 году на Каннском кинофестивале состоялась премьера экранизации «Зоны интересов». 19 мая, когда показали фильм, Мартин Эмис скончался. Фильм вызвал на фестивале бурную и долгую овацию. Картина получила Гран-При Канн и приз ФИПРЕССИ. Роман Мартина Эмиса и его экранизация, рассказывающие историю, казалось бы уже из ушедшей эпохи, внезапно обрели звенящую акутальность, резонируя с тем, что происходит в мире сейчас...

Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.
So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts, encountering vibrant characters from Saul Bellow, to Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the person who captivated Amis' twenties, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps.
Amis addresses our burning questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die?

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. Meanwhile, Gregory's foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the…

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets the aloof, wildly unattainable, Rachel.

As Charles’s twentieth birthday – and the Oxford entrance exams – loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous ‘Rachel Papers’.

Я — детектив Майк Хуліген. І я хотіла б розповісти вам про найважчу з усіх своїх справ. Усе почалося з дзвінка колеги, який повідомив, що виявлено тіло Дженніфер, доньки полковника поліції. Я знала її змалку — а тепер чула про її самогубство. Так, щаслива, успішна, заможна, красива дівчина пустила собі кулю в рот. Жахливо, подумаєте ви? Ні. Жахливо те, чому вона це зробила...

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times
Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong...
Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed.

"The Mick Jagger of literature . . . Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction." --Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph

"[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction . . . Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship.

This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness.

Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers--Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin--and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Amis's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die. In search of his answers, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer.

The result is a love letter to life--and to the people in his life--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.

This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness.

Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers—Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin—and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Amis's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die. In search of his answers, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer.

The result is a love letter to life--and to the people in his life--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.

Уявіть, що життя починається смертю. Молодість настає після старості. Прощання передує зустрічі. Абсурд? Ні, історія лікаря Тода Френдлі, що розгортається у зворотному напрямку. Від загибелі внаслідок автокатастрофи десь у США до нацистських таборів смерті в Освенцимі. Невідворотно наближаючись до наймасштабнішого злочину Другої світової — Голокосту. От-от попіл перетвориться на людей і найжахливіший кошмар лікаря Френдлі стане реальністю. Чоловік у чорних чоботах і білому халаті Мільйони невинних жертв Звідки це моторошне передчуття майбутнього? І усвідомлення того, що нічого не можна змінити. Бо майбутнє вже відбулося

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.

The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry.
The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016.
One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him.