Richard Tull y Gwyn Barry son escritores, ambos al filo del abismo de los cuarenta aos - han nacido con un da de diferencia -, y amigos desde siempre. Richard fue el primero en probar las mieles del triunfo, public su primera novela cuando era una joven y brillante promesa de las letras, mientras el opaco Gwyn redactaba laboriosos artculos para enciclopedias y ni siquiera consegua resear libros para revistas literarias.Pero el tiempo ha pasado, y ahora es Richard quien vive en los oscuros mrgenes del mundillo literario, con sus difciles novelas experimentales olvidadas por todos, trabajando para una dudosa editorial que publica novelas que pagan los propios autores, y reseando biografas de escritores casi tan desconocidos como l mismo para una esculida revista literaria. Gwyn ha alcanzado la fama en el mundo entero con una ingenua, fcil y seductora utopa new-age, se ha casado con una deslumbrante aristcrata, se lo disputan editores y agentes literarios, y es el nio mimado de los medios de comunicacin.Y un buen da, consumido por la envidia, el horror de la cotidianeidad y el horror al fracaso, acosado por la informacin que le llega en las noches de insomnio - ese rumor que comienza a orse a los cuarenta aos y nos habla de la certeza de la muerte -, Richard decide pasar al ataque, e instrumenta un plan - o mejor dicho una serie de planes -, para fastidiar bien fastidiado al famoso Gwyn, su amigo de siempre. Pero no sabe que la humillacin del imperturbable escritor de best-sellers es una empresa poco menos que imposible; los triunfadores, como los idiotas, son seres olmpicos e invencibles...En La informacin, Martin Amis retorna a territorios que le son familiares: la amistad y la rivalidadespecular entre dos hombres, que ya apareca en xito, el submundo canalla y turbio de C

Anagrama

La información

¿Qué tienen en común Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Asimov, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Larkin, los Rolling Stones, John Lenon, Roman Polanski, Karpov y Kasparov, Madonna y la señora Nabokov? Como mínimo, que todos ellos han despertado el interés de Martin Amis, uno de los autores más aplaudidos de la nueva narrativa británica, y faceta acaso menos conocida un excelente periodista, tal como esta suculenta recopilación de reportajes, artículos y breves ensayos permite comprobar.
Martin Amis retrata a sus maestros y a sus coetáneos, juega al póquer con Al Alvarez y David Mamet, asoma la nariz en una convención republicana en Nueva Orleans, se pasea por la Feria del Libro de Frankfurt, presencia una partida de dardos, contempla a las bañistas en topless en Cannes, asiste al rodaje de Robocop II Este libro agudo, chispeante y rebosante de inteligencia es, en definitiva, un viaje por nuestro peculiar, contradictorio y siempre sorprendente mundo de la mano de uno de los mejores escritores ingleses contemporáneos.

Visitando a mrs. Nabokov y otras excursiones

Newly reissued for the modern reader, Martin Amis’s Success is “a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust” (The Observer).Foster brothers Terence Service and Gregory Riding could not be more different from one another—Terry “a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude” and Greg a “bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response.”After the shocking killing of Terry’s child sister, he is taken in by the aristocratic and wealthy Riding family and introduced to his new foster brother and sister, Greg and Ursula. As adults, the two boys unhappily share a tiny apartment in London. Greg spends his days tormenting Terry and engaging in plenty of messy, meaningless sex, while Terry suffers through a dead-end job and exists wholly in his brother’s cold and looming shadow, licking his wounds from a lifetime of romantic and social failures.Told throughout the course of one year in Terry and Greg’s lives, Success shows just how fickle luck can be, and how quickly one’s life can be totally, horribly changed. With caustic, searing prose, Success is a firecracker revenge story for the ages.

Tapa blanda

Inglés

Picador

Success

Salamandra

Tren nocturno

Vintage

House Of Meetings

Minotauro

Los monstruos de einstein

A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Amis's reviews of pertinent books and films, from The Looming Tower to United 93, provide a far-ranging survey of other responses to these calamitous issues, which are further explored in two short stories: "The Last Days of Muhammed Atta," its subject self-evident, and "In the Palace of the End," narrated by a Middle Eastern tyrant's double whose duties include epic lovemaking, grotesque torture, and the duplication on his own body of the injuries sustained by his alter ego in constant assassination attempts. Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read - informed, elegant, surprising - and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with.

The Second Plane

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience.Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.The author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections.Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism

Vintage Books

Koba The Dread

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME).“Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York TimesFirst published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

London fields

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of a classic whodunit, "Amis has created a quicksilver narrative that grabs the reader and refuse to let go” (The New York Times)."Dazzling.... Whistles into the police-procedural structure only to blow it to bits." —Wall Street JournalDetective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case—this case—has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop—now top brass—takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to "put the case down." Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.

Night train

"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self.She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human—and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her."Powerful and electrifying.... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho." —J. G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun

Other people

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal—they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tender, funny and disturbing...wonderful." —The New York Times"A portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anything] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities." —Houston ChronicleRichard Tull, a frustrated, failed novelist, stews with envy and humiliation at the success of his oldest friend, Gwyn Barry, who is a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers. He's a terrible writer, but that doesn't comfort Tull as he sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary obscurity. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is to plot the demise of Barry—to gather the information that will lead to his downfall. Meanwhile, both men are being watched by a psychopathic ex-con and a young thug, who have staked out their homes, watching their wives and Richard's small twin boys, waiting until the time is right...Amis is at his savage best in what has been hailed as one of his greatest books, full of wicked humor and exquisitely turned, cutthroat sentences, "never out of reach of a sparkly phrase, stiletto metaphor or drop-dead insight into the human condition," as the critic Christopher Buckley put it. This is a mesmerizing and entertaining novel of midlife crisis and male friendship, of our brutal culture of fame and fortune and too much information. "The Information contains some of the most pleasantly wicked passages Amis ever written." (San Franciso Chronicle)

The Information

NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz."A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." —San Francisco ChronicleMartin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet"—the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history. An epilogue by the author elucidates Amis's reasons and method for undertaking this extraordinary project.

The Zone Of Interest

In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction • From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art." —NewsdayTod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves “out of blackest sleep” to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel’s inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet—the final solution.

Time's arrow

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change. "A nearly perfect comic novel.” —New York Magazine The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing—a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity—and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as “a pregnant widow.” As Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and poignant portrait of change. Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.

The Pregnant Widow

TREN NOCTURNO

Dead babies

Catalán

Editorial Anagrama

Des de dins

Una serie de artículos sobre América del autor de Dinero y La casa de encuentros.

Español

El Aleph

El infierno imbécil

Editorial Anagrama S.a.

Panorama de Narrativas

Experiencia

Tapa dura

Niños muertos

El autor reconstruye la idea convencional del tiempo para explorar la naturaleza del pasado en una historia que empieza, se desarrolla y termina al revés. De esta manera, encontramos a un agonizante doctor Tod T. Friendly cuya muerte da comienzo a un viaje por aquella vida que tuvo varias identidades, no pocos secretos y una tan enigmática como sospechosa inquietud. En el laberinto temporal de esa fuga vemos cómo Friendly rompe con sus amantes y después se enamora de ellas, arruina a sus pacientes antes de que vayan a visitarlo y escapa de una culpa terrible de la que se ignora su impredecible por qué. John Young, Hamilton de Souza y Odilo Unverdorben, otros nombres de ese mismo hombre, van entonces de la vejez a la juventud hasta llegar al centro del origen: Auschwitz. En ese campo de concentración Amis refleja el tiempo, pero también la propia cultura contemporánea. El resultado es una novela asombrosa y cruel, cuyo elegante nerviosismo sugiere que, tal vez, en la Historia sólo hay sentido si se altera el orden. á «Esta novela que asombra y sugestiona es una gran tragicomedia, y se apoya tanto en la idea de destino como en la de carácter» (Marcelo Cohen, La Vanguardia). «Anagrama se apunta un nuevo tanto con el último título de Martin Amis» (Pilar Castro, ABC).

Compactos

La flecha del tiempo

Un libro ambicioso y deslumbrante que mezcla vida y literatura, novela y memorias, ensayo y narración. Martin Amis explora experiencias vividas, evoca a personas importantes para él y reflexiona sobre la escritura como el arte de contar y dar sentido a las historias. ¿Estamos ante unas memorias noveladas? ¿Ante una novela basada en episodios de la propia vida? ¿Ante un ensayo sobre el poder de la literatura? ¿Ante el repaso a una carrera literaria y una vida? Este ambicioso proyecto, escrito sin red y sin cortapisas, es todo esto y unas cuantas cosas más.Desfilan por estas páginas tres figuras fundamentales para el autor como persona y como escritor: el mentor Saul Bellow en sus últimos años de vida, el amigo y compañero de tantas andanzas Christopher Hitchens enfrentado a su temprana muerte, y el solitario, huraño y genial Philip Larkin cuya poesía ha acompañado siempre a Amis. Asoman además otros escritores, entre ellos el padre Kingsley, y también la hermana que falleció demasiado pronto por problemas con el alcohol, y los endiablados amoríos de juventud, y la vida familiar con la esposa e hijas, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, el terrorismo, el antisemitismo y sobre todo la palabra, la literatura...Escrito en la estela ?y como superación? de Experiencia, su anterior incursión en lo memorialístico, Desde dentro es un libro que escapa al encorsetamiento fácil, una suerte de experiencia literaria total. Un must para cualquier amante de la obra de Amis y un libro indispensable para cualquiera interesado por las posibilidades de exprimir a fondo la literatura, la memoria y la vida.

La información

Visitando a mrs. Nabokov y otras excursiones

Success (2025)

Tren nocturno

House Of Meetings

Los monstruos de einstein

The Second Plane

Koba The Dread (2003)

London fields (1992)

Night train (1999)

Other people (1994)

The Information (1996)

The Zone Of Interest (2015)

Time's arrow (1992)

The Pregnant Widow (2010)

TREN NOCTURNO

Dead babies (2025)

Des de dins

El infierno imbécil (2008)

Experiencia

Niños muertos (2002)

La flecha del tiempo (2011)

Desde adentro (2021)

Perro callejero (2007)