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Article: Trials of a literary legatee: Martin Amis, author, on Martin Amis, image.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 17, 1995
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NEW YORK _ Rolling a cigarette at the Royalton Hotel, Midtown's hip lunchbox and sandbox for media powers, is the wiry serial smoker that Saul Bellow compares to Flaubert and Joyce.
English literary scholar Malcolm Bradbury describes the very same Mick Jaggerish-looking fellow as ``a pained, postmodern ironist,'' dominated by ``a sense of an ever more corrupted and decaying material world,'' a craftsman with a strong claim ``to be the most influential British stylist of his generation.''
Even the stern ``Cambridge Guide to Literature in English,'' aware that the man may already be _ in The Independent of London's judgment _ ``the most highly regarded writer ...