Next Five Minutes, The: Literature and History

Synopsis: Examines J G Ballard’s achievement in his autobiographical novel ‘Empire of the Sun’ and the effect that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki had on the narrative. Explores how language and literature have attempted to deal with the ‘history’ of the world since 1945 through interviews with Martin Amis, Angela Carter and J G Ballard. Discusses how writers deal with the reality of potential nuclear apocalypse and whether they should try. Concludes with an extract from Martin Amis’s novel ‘London Fields’.
Series: Literature in the Modern World, Course A319
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: English language and literature; History
Keywords: Amis, Martin; Ballard, J G; Carter, Angela; English language; fiction; history; novelists; nuclear warfare

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