The Chronological World of Martin Amis' Time's Arrow

Abstract

My research focuses on the theme of reversal of time which is subjected to an ironical treatment in Amis’ Time's Arrow, which is about the Jewish Holocaust. Reversal of time; normal cause-effect relations; moral and aesthetic questions on the nature and mimesis and the literary representation of atrocities are inflected with the ironical treatment. What it also goes to argue is that Amis' ironic method in Time’s Arrow is simultaneously mimetic and anti-mimetic and consequently, places the reader, uncomfortably, uncannily, between the tragic and comic poles of moral and aesthetic experience.