The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis
Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-101-91025-2
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
We last glimpse the âhandsome coupleâ three years later, in Buenos Aires. Handelâs Tamerlane is playing at the Teatro Colón. Jewels âwinkedâ. A Mercedes Maybach âwhispered to the curbâ. Youâll have to stop minding about the tenses here, because Harris switches freely from past to present, sometimes in the same paragraph. During intermission in their âornate boxâ, âthe gentleman took a champagne flute from a waiterâs tray and handed it to the lady â¦â And after the show the Mercedes âpurrsâ off and âdisappears into the courtyard of an exquisite Beaux Arts building near the French Embassyâ. How does it go for them â for Count and Countess Lecter? Us scum, of course, are given only a few tantalizing glimpses. Clarice often talks Italian at mealtimes (âShe finds a curious freedom in the visual nuances of the languageâ). Hannibal is committed to the daily âpenetration of Clarice Starling, which she avidly welcomes and encouragesâ. Ah, but now Harris tastefully withdraws, murmuring in gnomic valediction, âWe can only learn so much and live.â In The Silence of the Lambs, when Clarice began her interviews with the caged cannibal, the National Tattler, that vicious slur-sheet, called her the âBRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN!!â It is a symmetry, of a sort, that Harris should work himself around to giving that headline flesh.
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