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Frank Kermode: The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis., 10 May 2001
The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
by Martin Amis.
Cape, 506 pp., £20, April 2001,0 224 05059 1 Show More
by Martin Amis.
Cape, 506 pp., £20, April 2001,
“... and Aristophanes can procure a pardon for that sort of thing. Other reviewers may commend Thomas Harris for committing ‘not a single ugly or dead sentence’ but Amis finds enough of them to label Harris ‘a serial murderer of English sentences’ and Hannibal ‘a necropolis of prose’. He finds the opposite response of other commentators ... ”