![]() ![]() For example, he simply accepts that people wait for an hour in a physician's waiting room after being examined, although at some points he has doubts about this tradition. Amis's use of these techniques is aimed to create an unsettling and irrational aura for the reader indeed, one of the recurrent themes in the novel is the narrator's persistent misinterpretation of events. Īmis engages in several forms of reverse discourse including reverse dialogue, reverse narrative, and reverse explanation. The narrator may alternatively be considered merely a necessary device to narrate a reverse chronology. ![]() ![]() Some passages may be interpreted as hinting that this narrator may in some way be the conscience, but this is not clear. The narrator is not exactly the protagonist himself but a secondary consciousness apparently living within him, feeling his feelings but with no access to his thoughts and no control over events. The narrator, together with the reader, experiences time passing in reverse. The novel recounts the life of a German Holocaust doctor in reverse chronology. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology, with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. ![]()
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