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Oktober
Original Fiction, Short Story:
“The crowd was diversified by thin streams of dark-skinned and dark-clothed refugees, their eyes haunted and determined, their tread leaden but firm.”
“The crowd was diversified by thin streams of dark-skinned and dark-clothed refugees, their eyes haunted and determined, their tread leaden but firm.”
- GenresShort StoriesFiction
20 pages, ebook
First published November 30, 2015
About the author
Martin Amis
98 books3,064 followersMartin Amis was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works included the novels Money, London Fields and The Information.
The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."
The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
December 12, 2015
Amis' short essay/story weaves together several topics - the arrival of immigrants to Munich, the jolly celebrations of the Oktoberfest, reflections on Nabokov's immigration experience and family "troubles" overheard in a hotel lobby.
Despite combining so many aspects in a quite show prose, there is also a sense that something is still missing. It is a complex situation and there are no simple answers.
Interesting, though not great.
Despite combining so many aspects in a quite show prose, there is also a sense that something is still missing. It is a complex situation and there are no simple answers.
Interesting, though not great.
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May 20, 2016Στέκομαι τόσο αμήχανα απέναντί του, όσο και στα γεγονότα που το ενέπνευσαν
April 9, 2016
Superb.
May 1, 2016
I like the moral and the compare/contrast, but it wasn't really a short story.
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August 24, 2023Is it about tell date time?i lost in a moral here.many talk and travel and back.i think that happen with me that the place to be lost like hauroki mukurami.is it about tals of travel or history of october.agh forget that iam lost.
December 29, 2018
Decent story, appeared in the december 2015 New Yorker.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews