. ♪ >> martin amis is here.reputation, he is the bad boy rock star of british fiction even though he is a grandfather and lives in brooklyn. his latest novel is "the zone of interest congo a dark satire -- ," a dark of interest satire set in a fictional part of auschwitz. "the zone of interest" is a controversial novel. publishers rejected it. in his native britain, reviewer's are calling it his best work for 25 years. i am pleased to have martin amis back at this table. would you disagree with any part of that introduction? >> i don't think so. >> but you think this is the best work in 25 years? >> i think it has a chance of being my best novel. -- when i pick it up, i am agreeably surprised and impressed by how it hangs together. i thought it was going to ask a lot of the reader. that it it seems to me is wrong. flex tell me -- >> tell me what it was that drove you could do this. you have touched on this elsewhere. cracks i read a novel about it 25 years ago. the come from your unconscious. silentcome from anx

. >> rose: we continue this evening with martin amis, a british novelist. his new book is called the zone of interest. >> you don't normally see more than about five percent of anyone, yourself included. and quite right that you shouldn't. that this terrible, you know, just the tip of the iceberg, not the mass of the iceberg. but in an atrocity produce og situation like auschwitz, you see the rest of the 95%. and everyone describes the experience as being one of the staggering surprise. as a perpetrator, you find that you can do it, or you like it. as a victim you find enormous strength in yourself and the voices of the survivors are of such a high level of perception and wisdom and apherism that convinces you that what helped you survive was force of life. >> rose: a look at the conflict in iraq an a conversation with martin amis when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following:. additiona funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. from our studios in new york city, thi

the other night you had martin amis, who wrote a book that was extraordinarily controversial.e explained what drove him to write the book. you had the primo levi quote, the adorno quote, writing auschwitz is barbaric, yet there must be writing. and one of america's most significant composers has previously done operas about controversial subjects. dr. atomic, critical of the united states. "nixon in china," which showed kissinger in a bad light. he has a perfect right to do that. how can floyd say to people, you should not see this, you should not hear this? one group, jewish groups, minority groups, irish groups, black groups, do they have the right to tell people what they should not do? black groups try to stop it because thought it portrayed blacks in an unfavorable light. it is now recognized as a classic. >> there is another part in the first amendment, dissent and protests and disagreement and passing judgment. we pass judgment all the time. peter gelb passes judgment at the met all the time in making decisions about what opera to put on and what not. the piece i did in

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you here had the other night martin amos who wrote this-- amis who wrote a book extraordinarily controversial and your interview was marvelous. he explained what drove him to write thising would. and you also had the quote, the primo levy quote, namely there are certainly things you can't understand. the adorno quote writing after auschwitz is barbaric. and yet there must be writing, there must be people talking about these things. and john adams, one of mark's most significant composers has previously done operas about controversial subjects. de dr. atomic which was critical of the united states, for bombing hiroshima. de nixon in china which basically showed nixon and-- richard nixon and pat nixon in a good light and showed kissinger in a bad light. he has a perfect right to do that. how can floyd or i or you come and say to the people, you shouldn't see this. you shouldn't hear this. i mean does one group, the jewish group, minority groups, irish groups, black groups, have the right to tell other people what they shouldn't do? one last thing. they tried to stop porgy and bess years ago, it

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