· The Alteration () by Kingsley Amis. Alternate history allows a reader not only to contemplate the past. It also makes one think upon the current culture and contrast its positives and negatives. This is what Kingsley Amis’s novel The Alteration does. It, however, comments on much more: the nature of freedom,Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · The Alteration. by Kingsley Amis. Stefan Raets. Wed pm 6 comments Favorite This. It’s , and the rule of the Roman Catholic Church is Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. The Alteration () by Kingsley Amis. Alternate history allows a reader not only to contemplate the past. It also makes one think upon the current culture and contrast its positives and negatives. This is what Kingsley Amis’s novel The Alteration does. It, however, comments on much more: the nature of freedom, dogma, and creativity, and how they interact.
Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force, The Economist Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century., Guardian The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange -- Laura Keynes, Tablet. Kingsley Amis' alternate-history novel "The Alteration" is a terrific novel that blends the fantasy pleasure of alternate history with literary satire. The Alteration is a alternate history novel by English novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. This new edition, out on May 7th.
“The Green Man and The Alteration will retain their important places in the history of supernatural fiction and science fiction.” —Michael Dirda “In one of his funniest novels, The Alteration, Kingsley Amis imagined a counterfactual world in which the Reformation had failed. Martin Luther had not plunged northern Europe into religious revolt, but instead became Pope Germanicus I. Prince Arthur of England did not die, so his odious brother Henry never became king. The Alteration itself is a vehicle to expose Amis's views on church and what he sees as its insidious power that drives it to despotism in a desperate drive to control and its fear of those outside its control. , but No Less Terrifying. Kingsley Amis’s alternate-history masterpiece The Alteration is an overlooked—but timely—novel about the dangers of authoritarianism. By Jason Guriel. A.
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