This Amis vs Eagleton thing

[Dillinger4]

I am quite a fan of Terry Eagleton, generally speaking of course

 

[rekil]

Someone told me that Amis once claimed that nobody could be capable of writing a novel unless they had a degree in english literature. Twas said during an interview for one of the broadsheets iirc. Twat regardless.

 

[Neva]

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2190208,00.html

I have never even heard of this man Eagleton.

How can an english novelist never have heard of Terry Eagleton, that's shocking.

 

[Dillinger4]

Edit - NM

 

[Big Jegzo]

Someone told me that Amis once claimed that nobody could be capable of writing a novel unless they had a degree in english literature. Twas said during an interview for one of the broadsheets iirc. Twat regardless.

Aye, he's a dick, what was his Trellick Tower-dwelling working class character called in his (shit) London Fields?
Keith Somebody? I dunno.
I liked The Gatekeeper (I think that's what it was called), Eagleton's autobiography.

 

[Blagsta]

So is Amis :shrugs:

The only Martin Amis book I ever read was London Fields and it was utter shite.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Aye, he's a dick, what was his Trellick Tower-dwelling working class character called in his (shit) London Fields?
Keith Somebody? I dunno.
I liked The Gatekeeper (I think that's what it was called), Eagleton's autobiography.

Keith Talent. Brilliant character. "Never touch another man's dart's" Keith kept muttering to himself after punching someone's lights out for picking his dart up off the floor.

 

[Dillinger4]

I bet Martin Amis is loving all this.

 

[nosos]

Whats it all about eh? I can't be arsed with reading both of the tedious cunts columns/books whatever. What's their massive row about?

Amis = cock
Eagleton = lairy

I also think he personally dislikes the guy. This reeks of someone finding an excuse to legitimately attack someone they already disliked intensely.

 

[Dillinger4]

Amis = cock
Eagleton = lairy

I also think he personally dislikes the guy. This reeks of someone finding an excuse to legitimately attack someone they already disliked intensely.

I agree, I don't think Eagleton likes the fact they are in the same department. But whatever his motivations are, I find Amis deeply deeply unpleasant, an impression reaffirmed just now as I watched him interviewed on C4 News.

 

[audiotech]

Eagleton is not a tedious cunt by a long stretch, he's actually a excellent writer.

Indeed and an excellent speaker imo. Here he has go at liberalism, including religion and those who prattle on about it, including Amis, the liberal, thinking they are experts on the subject:


The 'Marxists' don't get off lightly either.