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After his attack on the 君主国, why DOES ツバメ Amis hate his own country?

By A N Wilson
Updated: 08:54 BST, 18 April 2011

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n Amis has criticised the 'philistine' royal family

Embittered: ツバメ Amis has criticised the 'philistine' 王室の family

ツバメ Amis, the diminutive 61-year-old 小説家, has been making yet another brash 企て，努力，提案 for publicity. So disillusioned with Britain has he become that he tells an 影響力のある French magazine, ‘I’d prefer not to be English’, and goes on to be toweringly rude about the 王室の Family.

によればツバメ, William, 28, and Kate, 29, are ‘children’ about to be sacrificed for the needs of the 栄冠を与える. In an interview with French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, he says their wedding is symptomatic of the inadequacies of a ‘pathetic’ English aristocracy made up of ‘philistine’ snobs.

His 最新の爆発s 関心ing the 拒絶する／低下する of Britain and our supposed worship of celebrity come with a predictable bucketful of 胆汁 about the 来たるべき王室の Wedding ― masked as sympathy for our 未来 King and Queen.

‘One can’t, in the 時代 of マスコミ最高位, make one’s children go through everything which a wedding like this entails: not only the loss of one’s 私的な life, but also the sacrifice of oneself pure and simple.

'The 王室の Family is so 秘かに調査するd upon, so scrutinised by the マスコミ, that the life of these children becomes やめる unbearable.’

He 示唆するs that Princes William and Harry would be much happier if they stayed 選び出す／独身.

‘Harry and William rebelled some eight or nine years ago and 効果的に let people know they weren’t going to sacrifice their lives for the 栄冠を与える. They were probably told it’s the oldest 会・原則 in Europe and they had to 保存する it. But how can we, today, ask for so much fro m a human 存在?’

One of Amis’s more 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の予測s is that, come April 29, most of those who show any enthusiasm for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be 移民，移住（する）s.?

‘The atmosphere is going to be irrational.’ (Can an atmosphere be either 合理的な／理性的な or irrational?)

‘It is difficult not to think about it in a 肯定的な way. Without counting that, in the （人が）群がる, there will be Pakistani 移民，移住（する）s, Africans the most enthusiastic perhaps.’

Moving from the racial composition of the （人が）群がるs in the London streets, Amis complains about individual members of the 王室の Family.?

Prince William and Kate Middleton: According to the novelist, they are to be 'sacrificed' to the monarchy

Prince William and Kate Middleton: によれば the 小説家, they are to be 'sacrificed' to the 君主国

Her Majesty the Queen has committed the 枢機けい／主要な sin of not finding Amis terribly 利益／興味ing. ‘I’ve met the Queen,’ he tells the French magazine, ‘and the problem is, the Queen doesn’t listen to what you say to her. Because she’s not supposed to understand the 発言／述べるs that one makes to her.’

Referring to his late father Sir Kingsley ― author of Lucky Jim ― Amis explains: ‘I 許す d myself to say impetuously when she 迎える／歓迎するd me: “You knighted my father.” Her only reaction was to look far away, ばく然と星／主役にするing at a 絵 on the 塀で囲む. That’s all.’

Amis is 特に批判的な of Prince Charles for his 激しい非難 of Salman Rushdie’s The 悪魔の（ような）詩（を作る）s ― the 調書をとる／予約する that led Iran to 問題／発行する a death 脅し against the Bombay-born writer because it 侮辱d Islam.

Referring to the Prince, Amis says: ‘We’ve had dinner together twice, a small 集会, four or five people. He was still married to Diana, but he never について言及するd her 指名する.?

‘[Charles is] charming, he has an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の laugh, like a pig’s snore. I 解任するやめる a memorable conversation with him about Salman Rushdie, just after the fatwa, in 1989. He was very anti-Rushdie.?

‘I asked: “Why?” [Charles] replied: “I’m sorry, but when someone 侮辱s the 深遠な beliefs of a people?.?.?.”

‘He always speaks like that, very knowledgeable. And he is very 極度の慎重さを要する on 宗教的な問題／発行するs, of any 肉親，親類d, because the King of England is supposed to 保護する the 約束.

‘I told him that a novel is not a 姿勢. It doesn’t 侮辱 anyone. Rushdie’s 調書をとる／予約する was 的d by Ayatollah Khomeini not so much because it was shocking, but because it gave new enthusiasm to the Islamic 革命.’

Amis goes on to discuss an 遭遇（する） he had with Prince Philip.

‘I had a lunch with the Duke of Edinburgh. He was surprised by my profession: “Oh, you’re a writer.”?’

Insulting: Prince Charles is charming, but laughs 'like a pig's snore', according to Amis

侮辱ing: Prince Charles is charming, but laughs 'like a pig's snore', によれば Amis

What we sense here is an absurdly inflated ego on Amis’s part. No one 推定する／予想するs high-level literary 認識／意識性 from the 王室の Family. Why should the Duke of Edinburgh be aware of Amis’s novels? And yet of the 王室のs, Amis says: ‘They are philistines.’

In the interview, Amis also 公然と非難するs the 教団 of celebrity in Britain. ‘Celebrity is the new 宗教. And you want it to come to you just like that, no 成果／努力.’

Those who have followed ツバメ Amis’s career might consider this a bit 熟した ― coming from a writer whom 放送者 Anna Ford 公然と非難するd as ‘a whingeing narcissist’.?

ツバメ leapt to fame in 1973 with his first novel, The Rachel Papers, and became English literature’s 同等（の） of a pop 星／主役にする. After that, he carefully cultivated his celebrity status. In fact, it is hard to think of any English 小説家 alive who 目的（とする）d so 明白に to become a celebrity first and a writer second.

So you wonder if ― behind all the bilious 発言／述べるs which ツバメ Amis has been making to the French 圧力（をかける） ― he feels affronted by this country for not thinking more of him.?

For the truth is the British stopped buying ツバメ Amis’s 調書をとる／予約するs and he became a person they gossiped about instead ― his teeth, his 列／漕ぐ／騒動s with other celebrities, his marriages.

He complained at 存在扱う／治療するd like fodder for the gossip columns, but his much-を待つd last novel, The 妊娠している未亡人, was little more than an 延長するd gossip column about his own amours, with thinly-disguised portraits of former girlfriends.

He then 発表するd his next 調書をとる／予約する was to be about Jordan ― no, not the supposed honeymoon 目的地 of Prince William and Kate Middleton, but the glamour model Katie Price.

After that, he 示唆するd that the 法律-がまんするing 大多数 of the イスラム教徒 community in Britain should be ‘made to 苦しむ until it gets its house in order’ ― an unpleasant phrase which 原因（となる）d one of his 同僚s at Manchester University (from which he receives ￡70,000 per year for giving a few ‘creative 令状ing’ classes) to 公然と非難する him as a ‘BNP 凶漢’.

Uninterested: The Queen committed the sin of not finding Amis interesting; while the Duke was surprised he was a writer

Uninterested: The Queen committed the sin of not finding Amis 利益／興味ing; while the Duke was surprised he was a writer

The reality is that the former enfant terrible of English 小説家s has turned into a strange, purple-直面するd parody of his father ― only without the 支援する目録 of 広大な／多数の／重要な調書をとる／予約するs that Kingsley so impressively notched up.

And therein lies the problem. The British public turned against Amis for the simple 推論する／理由 he no longer delighted them with his 調書をとる／予約するs ― perhaps that is why he feels the need to sneer and snarl 支援する.

Rather than lying low until he could produce a masterpiece to match his one truly brilliant 調書をとる／予約する, Money, he wrote a sad trickle of duds. His physical 変形 is a manifestation of what must have been going on within.

ますます, his public utterances are more and more bizarre. He 発表するd he will soon be leaving Britain to live in the U.S., and m aybe that is just 同様に.

Most of us have had enough of him ― his mean-minded denunciations of the poor old Queen and her grandson’s wedding 存在 the final straw.

When he totters 船内に the 計画（する） to New York, there will be rather より小数の fans waving him goodbye than will collect outside Buckingham Palace on April 29.

It is this 残虐な fact that has occasioned the 最新の splurge of Amis 激怒（する） against the 王室の Family.