Martin Amis, Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1993

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Anthology/ Collection
Article/ Review
Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection
Interview/ Conversation

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Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions

(1993) is Martin Amis’s third nonfiction book and his second collection of essays, reviews and interviews. Like its predecessor,

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

(1986), it is lively, impressionistic, and sometimes funny and insightful, especially about literature. Where

Inferno

contained, an introduction followed by 27 pieces (not in chronological order) first published, between 1977 and 1985, mainly in the

Observer

Visiting

contains an introduction and 33 pieces (again not in chronological order) first published between 1976 and 1992. 14 pieces appeared in the

Observer

, three in

Esquire

and the rest in a variety of newspapers and journals such as the

Evening Standard

Sunday Times

Telegraph

New Statesman

and

Vogue

. Amis has…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 February 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34379, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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