TMO Tags: Fyodor Dostoevsky
From Russia with love and hate: the hidden secret of Nicola Six in Amis’s London Fields
Monday, September 3rd, 2012Martin Amis’s 1989 London Fields – or ‘The Murderee’ as it was nearly called – is a virtuoso exercise in black humour, deceit, burlesque and biting misogyny. As Simon Schama put it in 2011: “Martin Amis’ glorious fury, London Fields; the never-likely-to-be-bettered bedtime story from the heart of Mrs Thatcher’s darkest Albion; stained with punk [...]
Terrorism in Dostoevsky and Conrad – a Response from Irish History
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012The romantic view of terrorists as misfits and lost souls, presented by Dostoevsky and Conrad in their work, is very much at odds with the practical and structured guerilla warfare that was seen during Ireland’s War of Independence
Terrorism in Dostoevsky and Conrad
Thursday, April 26th, 2012In the world of fictional drama, terrorists are useful and popular – useful to writers who want to propel their plots, and popular with viewers and readers who find subversives so compelling. They’re intelligent, driven characters, they’re prepared to kill or be killed and they think that moral good can be achieved by immoral acts. [...]
