In Amis’s famous novel, London Fields, the witty language is used and highlighted in the book repatedly. With the use of wit and pan (word play) Amis creates one of the most intelligent written novel ‘London Fields’. These uses of high elevated language and word plays also gives us the hints of postmodern fiction. As the novel is considered one of the best novel representing postmodernism, one can appreciate it due to the style that the novel is written, by means of wit and language. To give examples from the book;
-It was fixed. It was written. The murderer was not the murderer. But the murderee had always been a murderee.
The quote from Samson Young foreshadows that the real murderer is not the one we think, it will change. However the murderee ‘Nicola’ will always be the victim, not be affected by the inconstant murderer.
- I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet’s mistress.
In this quote we can also sense the metaphor that is made to Nicola. Here Samson , as a writer, claims that the poets are writing poetry due to the relationship between their mistresses. It is known that Young also writes a novel about Nicola, creating the same plot with the poets he criticizes.
-I close my eyes, trying to see a way- how do writers dare do what they do ? – and there is just chaos. It seems to me that writing brings trouble with it, moral trouble, unexamined trouble. Even to the best.
-When God got mad he was a jealous God. He had other planets, thanks, and in better parts of the universe. He promised plague, famine mile-high tides, sound-speed winds and terror, ubiquitous and incessant terror, with blood flowing bridle deep. He threatened to make her old and keep her that way forever… Cross that firebreak and then cross that one. Go too far in all directions. Extremity upon extremity , and then more extremity, and then more.
- But this is London and there are no fields. Only fields of operation and observation, only fields of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, only fields of hatred and coercion. Only force fields.
-Watching the children in the park– it occurs to me as i try to account for childish gaiety that they find their own littleness essentially comic. They love to be chased, hilariously aware that the bigger thing cannot but capture them in time.
-The rain is terrible. It wouldnt look so bad in a jungle or somewhere coming down like this, but in a northern city, suspended from soiled clouds. Its all so desperate when you try to wash something unclean in unclean water.
In this final quote it is not uneasy to understand the metaphor that is made to the city of London. After commiting the crimeful events in Black Cross pub or in the streetcorners of neighbourghoods, or after realizing how each character; Nicola, Keith, Guy, Mark Asprey is corrupted by their internal desires and unfeedable passions, Young absorbs the truth that the city is unclean and even the God couldnt be generous by sending clean waters to clean the unclean city. As he says ‘suspended from soiled clouds’ he alludes to the society’s system that is full of violence, sex, drugs and sins, creating a detrimental ecosystem that will result with unclean raining.
With all the quotes that is given, it is noticeable that Amis’s writing style, by meaning use of witty languages and word plays, enriches the novel and enlarges the postmodern elements. His way of writing and using elegant, wittifull phrases creates a cleverious atmosphere to the book.
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