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Journal Article
HOW DEVILISH ARE THE OLD DEVILS? SARCASM AND FORGIVENESS IN KINGSLEY AMIS'S BOOKER-PRIZE NOVEL
2025
Overview
Yet the analogy might initially frame interpretation of Amis's novel, for the zero-sum power relations of Screwtape's hell, where \"what one gains another loses\" (SL 91), is reminiscent of those in Devils. [...]the novel's Booker triumph has been dismissed as a sort of lifetime achievement award for Amis after being previously passed over (Moseley, \"Booker\" 515; Firchow 127; Ritchie 184), rather than for its individual merits; or the book's win is cattily explained away as compensating for a \"turkey\" (Faux 203) winning in 1985, Keri Hulme's The Bone People. Town amenities \"serve\" the public \"while not actually defrauding the populace\" (OD 77), beach booths \"had sprung up to screw the visitors\" (OD 153), young people intimidate the old and queue-jump on Malcolm (OD 10), journalists pretend to care about their subjects and interviewees until better jobs appear (OD 55), and service staff are prying or impertinent. Peter testily interrupts an obstreperous taxi driver's comments with, \"Well, that's splendid news, by George.
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Renascence
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