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Einstein's Monsters: Introduction-Thinkability; Bujak And the Strong Force or God's Dice; Insight at Flame Lake; the Time Disease; the Little Puppy That Could; the Immortals - Couverture souple

Amis, Martin

 
9780140103151: Einstein's Monsters: Introduction-Thinkability; Bujak And the Strong Force or God's Dice; Insight at Flame Lake; the Time Disease; the Little Puppy That Could; the Immortals
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140103155 ISBN 13 : 9780140103151
Editeur : Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of five short stories creating perplexing visions of the post-nuclear-holocaust world, from the author of "The Rachel papers", which won the Somerset Maugham Award.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'

Revue de presse

"A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours" (Sunday Times)

"Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath" (Observer)

"Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book" (Daily Telegraph)

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140103155
ISBN 13 
9780140103151
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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