![]() ![]() ![]() The emotional effect of the story is thus subverted: instead of seeing how youthful expectations were betrayed, we simply see how one man's sins were It to chronicle the show business careers of three longtime friends in "Merrily We Roll Along." But whereas these stories moved from the disillusionment of time present back to the idealism and hopefulness of time past, Mr.Īmis's story moves from phony innocence to a past of unrelieved horror. This gimmick of an inverted time scheme has been used before, of course: Harold Pinter used it to chronicle a love triangle in "Betrayal," and Stephen Sondheim and George Furth (working from an old George S. To affect Tod's behavior or understand the implications of his actions. The story is narrated by Tod's "soul," a curiously naive consciousness that seems powerless Friendly is told in a reverse chronology, beginning with his incognitoĮxistence in an American suburb in the present and moving back to the days when he was a doctor in the medical section of Auschwitz. The idea behind Martin Amis's latest novel, " Time' s Arrow," is this: the life story of a former Nazi doctor named Tod T. Time' s Arrow Or, The Nature of the Offense By Martin Amis 168 pages. October 22, 1991, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final The New York Times: Book Review Search Articleīooks of The Times Time Runs Backward To Point Up a Moral ![]()
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