The Fiction of Martin Amis by Nicolas Tredell

Author:Nicolas Tredell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

‘Nicola, I’m worried about you, as usual … I’m worried they’re going to say you’re a male fantasy figure.’

‘I am a male fantasy figure. I’ve been one for fifteen years. It really takes it out of a girl.’

‘But they don’t know that.’

‘I’m sorry, I just am’ (p. 260).

… Amis is covertly offering an ironic defense within the novel of his penchant for female characters like Selina [in Money] and Nicola. ‘I’m writing comedies. Vamps and ballbreakers and golddiggers are the sort of women who belong in comedy’.145 Such women are types, the subjects of fictional narratives, genre-specific. Nicola herself begins to question her own reality status within the novel when she gets into a conversation with Sam about when it is acceptable for fictional characters to vacillate. She agrees that characters subject to sexual vacillation are permissible:

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