Original title: The Rachel Papers
Original language: English
Year: 1973
Rating: Okay
is not always a good idea to embark on the debut author a high quality that it has acquired over time. Although prejudice aside, the relationship between the early and mature work varies greatly from one another. Sometimes, a few, the author early in his career produced his great magnum opus, once said everything I wanted to say and books that happen that are just mere followers. The Rachel book is somewhere in between. We are indeed learning to a novel also recounts an episode youth initiation. But it would still be well written, well constructed, with believable characters and a coherent plot that keeps the interest until the end. It will not be the best of the author but is well above many geniuses who then are not so obvious.
is a story of love / heartbreak and an acceptable inquiry into various types of human relationships told with a steady, which implies a very clear vision of how the characters evolve avoiding irregularities and imbalances. No missing however, the dose of surprise essential to reading it enjoyable to the reader. However, in this case, it is easy to fall into the trap and confuse the author and protagonist, and although the inclusion of autobiographical elements is clear, Amis manages to build a compelling personality. Undisguised sympathy that inspires the main character, is able to show no mercy its dark spots, but are justified by the character in most of its pages are brought out strongly at the end.
Charles, the teenager who thinks she supposedly mundane back around the base of much sarcasm, sharp observations and enough intellectual effort, belongs to a literary type which was maintained for a long time, which continued in force by then but, for some time, eventually becoming history. In their eyes, we know a Rachel idealized, which does not know much and although she constantly thinks and writes to quench his obsession, it will take many pages until we know. Doubts about the identity of Rachel and the fate of the relationship between both maintain the intrigue and occupy much of the plot. The fact that she has a boyfriend and this is a mature and socially situated individual seems to put you at a distinct disadvantage, which can clearly perceive is that this is a relationship with an expiration date, if you start, to be the girl who terminated. When later gives a twist to the plot, our intuition fades. Meanwhile, other relationships - for couples, parent-child or sibling - they develop at their own pace with its ups and downs, its small disasters, awards and pantomimes.
expecting a final Amis more uncertain but not limited to first-cut at any point under the guise of open-ended, on the contrary, discovering the great conceit of Charles and fraud that support small and the true personality of your brother, and it really does close with ease and consistency. Also
Martin Amis: London Fields , The second plane .
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