Time’s Arrow

…work of this period is Time’s Arrow (1991), which inverts traditional narrative order to describe the life of a Nazi war criminal from death to birth. In Amis’s works, according to one critic, “morality is nudged toward bankruptcy by ‘market forces.’ ” Other novels of the first decades of his…

In Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991), the flow of time is entirely reversed, but life seems just as precarious as people solemnly march to a final end in their mother’s wombs.