This is the question of the moment.
Is the film better than the novel?
On
The Zone of Interest
(2014), we get lost in conjectures.
For the moment, the supporters of Jonathan Glazer seem to prevail over the aficionados of Martin Amis.
Auschwitz, instructions for use.
The book focused on three characters, included a love story in the heart of hell.
The director focuses on the family of Rudolf Höss, camp commander.
The subject was not foreign to Amis, who, in
The Arrow of Time
, had looked into the case of a Nazi doctor.
Ironically, the author died last May, the day the feature film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Palme d'Or escaped him.
Amis would probably have shrugged his shoulders.
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In
Experience
(2000), which is also being republished, Amis recalls a significant anecdote about this type of event:
“My father had the only right word regarding literary prizes: they are only of interest if you win them. .”
These memories have something energetic...
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