Dead Babies: the Death of the Spirit and Soul (martin Amis)
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A clever and evil black farce, a self-destructive carnival of death, Martin Amis, the godfather of British literature, has an insight into the absurd phenomenon of society. Six young men gather for a weekend in a large house on the outskirts of London. Their desires are aroused by the arrival of three American guests. They drank excessively and indulged in debauchery, followed by a series of beatings, murders, car crashes and other atrocities. From early Friday morning to Sunday, the people in that house "felt as if they had walked a long way, and on this sudden weekend, they were taken out of the mother's womb by the midwife and reborn again." In a humorous and satirical style, the author faithfully presents the radical liberal social storm that arose in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s to readers. This storm broke through the bottom line of Western moral tradition, caused huge impact and harm to a generation, turned innocent and kind-hearted young people into "civilized savages", and became a countercurrent in the long river of human history. They are not so much alive as they are zombies. They are the bodies of babies who died before they grew up.
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