Article: MARTIN AMIS PONDERS NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE

EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS, by Martin Amis. Harmony. 149 pp.

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Just as I was thinking that no century could possibly be dumber than the nineteenth, along came the twentieth." Thus snipes one of the grotesques in Martin Amis' story collection, "Einstein's Monsters," and you get the drift. On the one hand the line seems exactly the raucous, inappropriate blast of charmlessness one welcomed in Amis' wild novel, "Money." On the other, it suggests the entire point of view of this volume so admirably concerned with the coming nuclear apocalypse. To Amis, some, maybe most, people "just don't get it." Either infantile or sociopathic, the extremists grow ever more surreal. At the ...

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