Моя шикарная доска Padlet by Bekzod Valiquziyev https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt en-us 2023-03-01 07:03:51 UTC 2023-03-01 07:36:36 UTC hello@padlet.com The Rachel Papers (1973), Martin Amis’s first novel, is a snapshot of teenage life for Charles Highway, a pseudo-intellectual and aspiring literary critic who, soon to turn twenty, is desperately clinging to adolescent freedom, studying for Oxford entrance exams, obsessing over typical teenage anxieties, and trying to bed an older women before his fast-approaching birthday. The woman in question, Rachel (a full one month older than Charles), is superfluous in many respects, the novel designed as an introspective study of the teenage male psyche, Charles Highway its grotesque but compelling narrator – a character of extreme paradoxes; unpleasant enough to reuse a condom and abandon a pregnant partner, yet meticulous and vulnerable enough to document all of his conquests and his family relationships. bekzodvalikuziyev https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499092739 2023-03-01 07:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499092739 Madina madinabozorova017 https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499104800 The Rachel Papers is in many ways a statement of intent from Amis, separating himself from his father’s reputation and setting his own literary path. In this vein, the novel actively parodies the satiric genre, renouncing the moral certainty and “nice” comedy of Lucky Jim and its ilk, and setting out Martin’s own path into the comic grotesque. Indeed, there are parallels between a letter Charles writes to his father within the novel and the self-conscious process of Martin writing in the shadow of his own father.]]> 2023-03-01 07:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499104800 Dilrabo madinabozorova017 https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499105089 Initial reviews were mixed, and The Rachel Papers continues to split opinion, for some it is Amis’s majestic style in embryonic form, for others it is coarse and populated by conceited, unpleasant characters. If, as is often assumed, Charles Highway is in some way autobiographical, the brashness of the work must also be considered bold, if not brave. Though the novel is full of energy and potential it is clumsy in places and lacks the refinement needed to successfully achieve all that Amis attempts. As a precursor to later successes it is a vibrant introduction to Amis, a promise of great things to come.

The Rachel Papers is far rawer than Amis's later novels, and it's fascinating to read his earliest attempt at the form. I enjoyed the book and got through it quickly. Definitely recommended to Amis fans, to first time readers I'd still recommend Money.]]> 2023-03-01 07:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bekzodvalikuziyev/ymnle36wj65dnhmt/wish/2499105089