The Amis Papers

Ep4 Success (1978)


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This episode discussed Success, a tale of two brothers and sister trying to adapt to the adult world, by way of unreliable narration, urban landscapes, childhood trauma and attempted hedonism.

Links are made to the world of work as described in Joseph Heller Something Happened , and textual parallels to TS Eliot The Wasteland and Philip Larkin ‘Going’, ‘High Windows’, and ‘This be the Verse’.

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https://martinamisweb.com/discussion.shtml

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/an-amis-who-lives-in-his-own-world-1620442.html

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-age-of-acceleration-an-interview-with-martin-amis/

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/martin-amis-how-the-sexual-revolution-helped-destroy-my-sister-sally-6790757.html
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The Amis PapersBy Martin Locock