2013 Martin Amis BBC Hard Talk Interview Full Programme
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2013
- It was death that urged Martin Amis to America -- though not, as reported in parts, some sort of death of the England left behind.
"My mother died the year before last, and we were thinking about that," says the novelist, 62, waistcoated, meeting the evening with a bottle of beer in his home in Brooklyn, New York. "My mother-in-law [a Brooklyn resident] was the same age, and her husband of 40 years was ailing too. He died quite suddenly, before we'd even got here. But we'd been thinking for months: they're not going to be here for ever."
So Amis and family -- wife Isabel Fonseca, daughters Fernanda and Clio -- left London for New York, at first to commandeer the mother-in-law's floor and later to take up residence in a towering, turn-of-the-20th brownstone in Brooklyn. "There was a half-hearted attempt to make it look as though this was out of disaffection for England," says Amis. "Me saying, 'England can go fuck itself.'" He means newspaper reports, published around the time of the move last summer, that framed it as a demonstrative emigration: a flounce out. "There wasn't an iota of that."
RIP. A supreme stylist.
I've never read anything by Martin Amis, but listening to him makes me want to.
Nick M Please do, his writing style is very enjoyable.
I have an old copy of London Fields. Perhaps I should read that.
+Nick M u spoke my mind
Try his memoir: Experience. It's extremely captivating and insightful. If you write at all, you will find it especially useful.
1990 ~ Start with The Rachel Papers. It's his first novel and it's as fresh and funny and spot on today as it was back in the 70s. Ask my kids. Ask my grand-kids. And after that, for me, well, Money is the big one. But other people may have their own suggestions. He's all good. Enjoy!
A really wonderful writer. He is greatly missed.
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Do you also think his non-fiction contains his greatest writing ?
Thank you for uploading!
What an enjoyable chat.... for all parties, I dare say.
Thanks for uploading, even though the quality is not that great...
Amis is king. I love him. Always will.
You two are a genius of your respective fields !......
Rip Martin
Well I wasn’t expecting much, what with the Day Today opening sequence, but his interlocutor was exceedingly articulate and well-researched. It made for a probing interview.
The host of Hardtalk looks like Martin's brother !!!.... Nice interview !!!...
Hard talk, sherry, lunchtime, almost!😂
Amis had friends....
MONEY will remain a long lasting work of Fiction for all of us. He speaks in a such way like he writes that you can't help reading/ listening him......
Almost inaudible voices are easily ignored.
He died this week. May 2023.
why should he prove he likes england? the most awful question to be asked. like writers should praise england omg yes
When he gets to his keyboard; just for today I will feel superior.
11:58 "I just wonder whether you reflect now, and you look at perhaps the decision taken by other top writers around the world, I'm thinking people like J. M. Coetzee, and maybe Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon and others, who very much kept their distance from the media" - J. M. Coetzee / Don DeLillo / Thomas Pynchon. Will have to check these guys out, this is the first I'm hearing of them!!
Too short
I understand that Lionel Asbo was panned. This country is fucked - and we need no ghost come back from the grave to tell us that much. But I seriously doubt that a successful Oxford graduate novelist approaching seventy is the man best equipped to explain precisely why.
Like too many interviewers,
this guy interrupts too much. I watched to hear Martin's answers, not this guy's lengthy, well-phrased,
intelligent questions.
I thought Lionel Asbo was hilarious, but Martin Amis divides opinion.
Not exactly 'hard talk' was it.
He's got such a strange upper class voice . He writes about the working class with neither sympathy nor understanding. His characters are flat caricatures or types: the hot gf, the jammy yob, rather than giving them their own voices he gives them his. The language is self consciously stylish and unreal , in the hands of the author they become grotesque nightmares or dull virtuous losers . There's something sadistic about the way these half feared half sneered at paper thin cartoons are destroyed for committing the hubris of moving into area of life above and beyond their station. These works lack depth, compassion and rather than challenge a reader to broaden their thinking confirms and celebrates a sadly familiar condescension and real antipathy of someone who clearly sees himself as some kind of guardian of a past societies worst attitudes
Not nearly as articulate as I had expected.
Woolwich STABBING? Amis is out of the loop
Amis says that what the UK does "no longer reverberates throughout the world". But the creator of the world wide web is British and it is a major part of life in most countries.
Quite. And Tim Berners-Lee is very Britishly modest about it. It's like finding out that Gutenberg used to blush and say, "Oh, printing, THAT old thing..."
NON-SEQUITUR 'a statement that does not correctly follow from the meaning of the previous statement' (Cambridge Dictionary)
I have always wondered where the upper middle class get there information on the working class, I am assuming that non of these people Amis included have never "worked" a day in their lives or really know that many people from different backs grounds, I am not a troll I am genuinely interested i always have been. In truth I do not know enough about Amis, he may have a load of mates from state schools I just doubt it.
How mad is that. I am 5 mins into this video and began thinking the very same thing as you before even reading your admirably worded comment!
I think it maybe from other writings from writers that are also from similar backgrounds so in the end we get a type of "poverty porn" or a caricature of the working class. Although having said all this I have not read this book so I could be wrong.
Reader meet Author - Morrissey.
Good point
logical fruit "having said all this i have not read this book"
5:44 Political Correctness is so engrained in English society that even a hard talker has difficulty pronouncing the word ‘superiority’.
I remember I used to watch the BBC before it became a Woke joke..
Many years ago now
Martin SAID, "I dont have the usual pains that all writers have."
Too many cigarettes
The interviewer is awful, annoying, interrupts too much, asks bad questions. Amis is brilliant as usual.
Daft program
Martin Amis,
He hammers home his opinions with enouigh venom to kill a whale, and the second after he has done the business, he reverts to making a face of a victim.Martin obviously enjoys looking down at people, but he is doing it while sitting in the gutter. Like his father, he is an alcoholic, but suffering from the twisted pleasure he deerives from being spiteful one second, and the next playing the victim. martin Amis is undoubtedly a great writer, but he has only written about two different novels. His characters are all similar with different names, and they are the low life,lower classes as he puts it.
what evidence do you have that he's an alcoholic?
Jamie Samson Hitchens best friend? lol
+Anthony Alan Davies?!
+Anthony Perry
What's the problem with being an alcoholic? I mean, as long as he's professional enough to get his books out, sell them, go and perform when he's on public engagements, he can do what he likes can't he? To be cursed with a mind like his is to lead a lonely life (perhaps why he chose to be a writer), it allows you to engage with very few people, interacting with those that have a lower caste of mind (the majority) for extended periods becomes a function of one's generosity. I don't think I can resent him for it, if indeed, what you allege is remotely true.
you say all that like its a bad thing