Time’s Arrow
novel by Amis
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discussed in biography
- In Martin Amis
…work of this period is Time’s Arrow (1991), which inverts traditional narrative order to describe the life of a Nazi war criminal from death to birth. In Amis’s works, according to one critic, “morality is nudged toward bankruptcy by ‘market forces.’ ” Other novels of the first decades of his…
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science fiction
- In science fiction: Time travel
In Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991), the flow of time is entirely reversed, but life seems just as precarious as people solemnly march to a final end in their mother’s wombs.
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