The Lyotardian Question of Linkage in Martin Amis’ The Information

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Ali Jamali Nesari ¹ ( Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran )
Shahram Walidi ² ( Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran )
Hiwa Weisi ³ ( Faculty of Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran )

Received: 2021-03-05 Accepted : 2022-08-30 Published : 2022-01-01

Keywords: Linkage, phrase, Metanarrative, AMIS, Lyotard, The Information,

Abstract :

At the heart of freedom, justice, politics, power, and the differend in Lyotard’s philosophy lies the question of linkage, a creative tackling of which makes the real difference since it is the space in which phrases, discourse regimens, and finally metanarratives form to give power a chance to be both exerted and resisted. In The Information, Martin Amis makes novel choices of phrases and also of the way he links them together so that new implications come to the fore concerning interpersonal power relations on a small scale and metanarratives on a large scale whose determination is the main objective of this library-based study which can boast of a question few studies, if any, have posed so far and also of a novelty apparent in its detailed, palpable depiction of simple, single events like taking a photo or travelling by air to the status of a little narrative that challenges such metanarratives as Marxism and capitalism. The story of two authors as rivals stands at the heart of Amis’ novel, working as a link that relates micro-components to macro-structures to show how a single move at a local level can disturb titanic structures and also how the position of such enormous structures leaves its definite footprints on the tiniest local components.

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