“Money” by Martin Amis (post 2): Protagonist experiences, and interacts with, other of the author’s personalities, including “Martin Amis, the writer” 

I do not think of the character, “Martin Amis, the writer” (1, p. 85), as a metafictional technique. The author is simply making literary use of conversation between his Martin Amis and John Self personalities.

Nor do I think of the following confession by the protagonist, John Self, as a metafictional technique:

“…I think we’re all agreed that I have a problem…You’ll tell me it’s the booze…but the booze is nothing new. Something else is new. I feel invaded, duped, fucked around. I hear strange voices and speak in strange tongues. I get thoughts that are way over my head. I feel violated…” (1, p. 67).

This character is probably expressing the author’s perplexing experience of various unnamed, alternate personalities: He hears their voices. They sometimes speak in other languages. They sometimes express thoughts that are beyond his comprehension.

Such experiences, if not recognized as due to benign, alternate personalities, might make a novelist worry about going crazy.

1. Martin Amis. Money: A Suicide Note [1984]. New York, Penguin Books, 2010.