Her kidnapping feels more like an excess of earnestness than proper evil. Like Miranda, Clegg’s victim, I naively warmed to him at first. Thankfully, I was reassured when I read The Collector, then terrified for different reasons. This book terrified me before I read it, when a friend suggested that the stalking story of my own nearly finished novel had already be done, very famously, by Fowles. Frederick Clegg in The Collector by John Fowles Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar in The Collector (1965). We don’t see the evil Odilo, but have to deduce him as his soul approaches the horrors he committed, consequences first, playing out a fantasy of the Holocaust regretted by its perpetrators, and magically undone. The conscience of a Nazi doctor relives his life backwards, watching as corpses are revived by murderers, grow younger and shrink until they are small enough to climb into their mothers’ wombs. Like A Clockwork Orange, the high concept of Time’s Arrow takes a little getting used to. Odilo Unverdorben in Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis (You may notice that the book shares a plot with Mr Nosey.) But why complicate a simple point? Evil people are also just people.Ģ.
His high-spirited carnival of rape and violence, then his cruel rehabilitation with aversion therapy, read more like a diagram than a story. The slang is a stylistic miracle, but I can’t say that Alex is a developed character. Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgessīurgess was the first novelist to obsess me, and like most readers I met him first through Alex and his droogs. Maybe their victims weren’t human either, in their eyes.ġ. We want to make them suffer, and compassion gets in the way. Many of these books were condemned as immoral when they first appeared, because they seemed to humanise the evil they explain. The villains on this list are murderers, torturers and rapists (sometimes all three), but when they say they do not feel remorse, we often admire their frankness.
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