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by Kingsley Amis, introduction by Keith Gessen. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university ...
Kingsley Amis and Lucky Jim Background. Lucky Jim remains the primary accomplishment of Kingsley Amis, whose work extended over five decades to include poetry, literary criticism, journalism, television plays, short stories, science fiction, and a James Bond novel. As Amis's first published novel, Lucky Jim set the tone for Amis's lifelong ...
Kingsley Amis. Kingsley William Amis ( Londres, 16 de abril de 1922- Londres, 22 de octubre de 1995) 1 fue un escritor, crítico literario y profesor británico. Escribió más de veinte novelas, tres recopilaciones de poesía, historias cortas, guiones para radio y televisión y libros de crítica social y literarias.
modifier. Kingsley Amis, aussi connu sous le pseudonyme de Robert Markham, est un écrivain britannique, né le à Clapham, un quartier de Londres, et mort près de Camden Town dans la même cité le 22 octobre 1995. Il suit des études littéraires à Oxford où il devient enseignant en littérature avant de professer à Swansea au pays de ...
Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing.” —Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker, 1956 “I was recommended [Kinglsey Amis’ Lucky Jim] when I was a teenager trying to figure out how to start reading ‘serious’ books.
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.
