Theme of the autobiographical fiction about his three friends, who all died after he had begun writing it, will be death
Martin Amis has disclosed that he is writing an autobiographical novel about three other writers: poet Philip Larkin, novelist Saul Bellow and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens. All three, who were friends and inspirations to Amis, died after he had started writing it, and the governing theme of the book will be death, he told the livemint.com website.
Amis, who wrote about all three men in his memoir Experience, did not confirm when the novel would appear appear. He did not reveal its title, but said: “It’s not so much about me, it’s about [the] three other writers … and since I started trying to write it, Larkin died in 1985, Bellow died in 2005, and Hitch died in 2011, and that gives me a theme – death – and a bit more freedom, and fiction is freedom.” He added: “It’s hard going but the one benefit is that I have the freedom to invent things. I don’t have them looking over my shoulder any more.”
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