Money And London Fields Critical Analysis

2. A CRITICISM OF THE MODERN WORLD IN MONEY AND LONDON FIELDS

“Money and London Fields focus upon the apparent political contradiction of these guiding principles and by exploring the validity of Thatcher’s dichotomous model on a national level, extrapolate the conclusions into a global context. One central premise of both novels is that traditional conceptions of place-identity, particularly where they are tied to ideas of nationhood, are irrelevant and meaningless given the increasingly pervasive influence of globalized media and business concerns. The expansion of multi-national corporations into new territories and markets throughout the world, and the subsequent spread of a competitive capitalist free market, arguably disestablishes conventions

Money deals with the life in post-World Word II England and America, presenting how the society felt under the influence of the capitalism and global consumerism, showing the greediness of the so called Reagan-Thatcher era. The similar situation comes with the London Fields, though it in a way deals with the results of such period, presenting the end of one millennium, entering a completely new period of everyone’s lives. London Fields is in a way the biggest portrayal of Amis’s everlasting interest in the future of the humanity and all of the issues that shape it in a clearly negative manner. The Thatcher era was described as a ”political platform emphasizing free markets with restrained government spending and tax cuts coupled with British nationalism both at home and abroad” . With the promotion of low inflation and strong discipline regarding the money supply and privatization, this ideology is often compared to the one that was conducted in the United States, with the presidency of Ronald

The character of Keith Talent is at one point presented as someone who “just didn't have the talent" , while the narrator whose name was ironically Samson Young was dying of cancer. The twenty-four chapters of the book were meant to imply the linearity of time and order, but nothing like that can be found in this book. There is a third-person point of view, followed by the narration of Samson Young, with the notion of metafiction, since there is also his diary intertwined with the writing.

“London Fields is, in many ways, a novel about writing novels and about playing around with fiction’s relationship to reality. It is also about the way in which fiction, in its broadest sense, affects the formation of identity: how people create narratives in order to understand their place in the world. In doing so, it seeks to undermine some of the grand narratives by which we have come to understand and interpret the late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century