Martin Amis
Overview
Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money
Money (novel)
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. Time magazine included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present".-Plot summary:...

 (1984) and London Fields
London Fields (novel)
London Fields is a black comic novel murder mystery by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and...

 (1989). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity
Absurdism
In philosophy, "The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any...

 of the postmodern
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...

 condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures.
Quotations

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden

Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

The Observer [London] (30 August 1987).

One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled.

"Introduction"

 
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