Martin Amis’ new novel The Zone of Interest
has been released in the UK, but his French and German editors have decided not
to publish it, claiming lack of demand and below standard quality. Nothing
surprising there.
Except that the theme for the new satire is
the Holocaust. So we hear the word ‘censorship’. Censors do exist, From Cuba to
China, From Russia to Saudi Arabia. But to suggest state or ‘other’ intervention
in this case is mere headline grabbing.
Amis is free to write and make available
whatever he chooses. The readers will be the judges of his work, and no-one
else. If he wishes he can publish digitally and offer his creation to most of
the world.
If The Zone of Interest really is just
that, then he will have no trouble selling his work.
If, however, he has come up with a dull, tasteless,
insensitive and basically unfunny tale.... I say no more.
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