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Amis thinks his new book will get him in deep doo-doo with “the feminists” and is doing some pre-emptive damage control. My guess is that “the feminists”, with a capital T and capital F, doesn’t do justice to the well-learned fear he’s trying to hide. At issue is his belief that the sexual revolution killed his sister by turning her into a compuslively promiscuous mental midget. Maybe there’s info I’m missing here, but… huh?
The Pregnant Widow, described by its publisher as a tragicomedy, follows the lives of six young people spending a long, hot summer holiday in an Italian castle during the sexual revolution and the “sea change” of 1970.
Amis said he had been told it would get him “in trouble with the feminists”, but he insisted that it was actually “a very feminist book” and that “they haven’t got a case”.
The title of the novel, which will be published in February 2010, is taken from the Russian intellectual Alexander Herzen, who said that after a revolution we are left with “not an heir but a pregnant widow”.
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November 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am
If he didn’t start his regular ‘controversies’, no one would pay attention at all, given how bad a writer he’s become, and what a jerk he is in public. Or rather, no one would if he wasn’t English: somehow that nationality still grants (male) mediocrity automatic critical attention and respect. There, that’s two chips off my shoulder…
November 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I just checked with The Feminists in their headquarters (a hollowed-out volcano in Vermont) and yeah, he’s officially In Trouble. If only he’d listened to his publisher!
November 25th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Actually, Martin Amis has been reduced to teaching creative writing. (Though he is controversially receiving a six figure salary (in pounds) at Manchester U.)
Must be particularly galling for him when Rushdie doesn’t have to do that. Maybe he can get a major religion to start a crusade against him. Can the feminists see to that from their secret hideout?