Martin Amis Contemplates Evil
England’s most famous living novelist has moved to America—and tilted the literary world
- By Ron Rosenbaum
- Smithsonian magazine, September 2012
“That’s what I seem to prize, the child or the ingénue, the less worldly characters. You can say that the world may not be getting worse—in a pinch you can say that. But it absolutely incontrovertibly is getting less innocent. You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.
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