Money: a Book of Destruction (martin Amis)
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About This Novel
Nominated for the most controversial "Booker Prize" in history, it angered the judges and was selected into "The 100 Best English Novels" by Time magazine. It provokes society and is dedicated to everyone who is addicted to consumption and desire. John Self, a producer of "commercials for alcohol, cigarettes, junk food, and nude magazines," indulged in "drinking, fighting, prostitution, pornography, and masturbation." For money, he even more unscrupulously made pornographic videos, and often traveled between London and New York, two money-worshiping metropolises. In this web of money and sex, Self's relationships with everyone around him are laid bare. Money is everywhere and omnipotent. As the only "true god" that Self trusts, it can not only fulfill all of Self's despicable and greedy human desires, but at the same time pave the way for Self to fall into hell. In this money and sex scam, Self ultimately became the biggest loser. In its straightforward, uninhibited and decadent description, this book profoundly highlights Amis's extreme ridicule of "money" and the silent sorrow of the twisted human soul corrupted by "money". From this "Tale of Two Cities" at the end of the 20th century, we can see how commercial producers in London used erotic films to pursue their dream of the showbiz world in New York. Everything is over the top, full of madness, subverting three views, and leading the trend of British experimental novels in the 1980s. It is an all-encompassing masterpiece.
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