"Villainy dreads mockery": Martin Amis on Zone of Interest
British author Martin Amis's latest novel depicts life in a concentration camp.
Martin Amis' writerly voice has been described as "corrosively satiric ... often very funny, zestfully profane, obscene, and scatological." So what happens when that irreverent voice takes on a topic as sensitive as the holocaust?
The British author's excellent new novel The Zone of Interest offers a sharply savage look at the brutality, banality, and absurdity of life at Auschwitz, from both Jewish and German perspectives.
Amis joins guest host Daniel Richler to discuss how he balanced the darkness and the light, why he predicts the future is full of self-censorship, and why doesn't believe in offending ... unless it's for "a very good reason".
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