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claire_sellers 's review for:
Inside Story
by Martin Amis
This book is not a autobiography novelisation. It is a series of strung together scenes amidst ponderings about the literary landscape of his time and how he fit into it.
At its core it is clear Amis is aware of the caricature of a writer and very much emulating that in his nod to constant other literary greats and his thoughts on Nazism and Xenophobia of the Bloomsbury Society. All of these points in turn are interesting yet all half explored footnotes a lot of the time. In many ways it emulates A Moveable Feast poorly yet is incapable of discussing a woman without chronicling her sexual identity and afflictions, even concerning his own stepmother and with the essay and footnote format becomes unreadable and disjointed to those not obsessed with literature theory prior to reading.
At its core it is clear Amis is aware of the caricature of a writer and very much emulating that in his nod to constant other literary greats and his thoughts on Nazism and Xenophobia of the Bloomsbury Society. All of these points in turn are interesting yet all half explored footnotes a lot of the time. In many ways it emulates A Moveable Feast poorly yet is incapable of discussing a woman without chronicling her sexual identity and afflictions, even concerning his own stepmother and with the essay and footnote format becomes unreadable and disjointed to those not obsessed with literature theory prior to reading.