Why is Daniel Soar so concerned with Martin Amis’s anger? Why doesn’t he recognize that writers sometimes write angry because they give more than a few damns about the universe?
© 2006, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
Why is Daniel Soar so concerned with Martin Amis’s anger? Why doesn’t he recognize that writers sometimes write angry because they give more than a few damns about the universe?
© 2006, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
Do you really think that’s the distinction to be made here? Soar’s point, it seems clear to me, is that Amis’ anger–or at least the forms it takes–has negatively affected his writing. Anyway, Amis may “give more than a few damns about the universe”, but he’s been pretty fucking stupid about it lately; blinded, one might say, by his own anger.