Starting from an interdisciplinary theoretical investigation of trauma the book analyzes the
relationship between Trauma Studies and literature. In particular it focuses on Martin Amis's
novel Time's Arrow where the breakdown of chronology coherence and predictability mimics the
collapse of temporality and the crisis of truth caused by trauma in the individual's mind.
Amis's novel reproduces the shocking force of trauma through a shocking narrative form in order
to avoid indifference and favour an empathetic and ethically committed reaction on the part of
readers. For these reasons Time's Arrow represents a significant example of trauma fiction.
