British writer Martin Amis died today at the age of 73, The New York Times reported. Amis, known for works such as Money, London Fields and Night Train, is considered the reinventor of British fiction in the 1980s and 1990s. Amis's writing focused on the apparent excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirized through cartoonish depictions.
Born on August 25, 1949, Amis was familiar with literature from an early age because his father, Kingsley, was also a famed writer and university professor. In addition, Amis inherited from his parent, who was considered "the best comic novelist of his generation", sarcasm as a narrative tool.
Amis son already stood out with his first novel Rachel's Book, which he published in 1973 when he was only 24 years old and which received critical applause and the Somerset Maugham Award for its satirical and skeptical vision of the sexual revolution, the seventies, the rock
His consolidation as a writer and international fame came in 1984 with the publication of Dinero, which in Spain published Anagrama like the rest of his work. In the novel, Amis builds a brutal criticism of the consumer society through irony and a character, John Self, who, as his name suggests, is selfish and addicted to all the vices that have been and will be, although above all he succumbs to the vision of money
Amis's career was propped up with novels such as Information (1995), Night Train (1997), The House of Meetings (2006), The Pregnant Widow (2010) or The Zone of Interest (2015). Amis was also a professor of literature at the University of Manchester and contributed to publications such as the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and The Observer.
His love for literature and his journalistic side led him to write non-fiction works such as Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993) where he pays homage to some of his favorite authors such as Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess with his particular look. , John Updike, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Asimov or V. S. Naipaul.
The novelist lived in Uruguay with his second wife, Isabel Fonseca, who is also a writer. Fonseca has announced today the death of her husband, a victim of cancer, according to the New York Times.
