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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.
Introduction. Lucky Jim is a young man’s book, in fact the book of two young men. They weren’t exactly angry young men, but they were extremely irritable. College friends with similar backgrounds, they had graduated from both Oxford and the Second World War to find themselves in an England that was in terminal decline.
Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis. Penguin, 1992 - Fiction - 256 pages. First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. It is a young man's book, in fact a book of two young men. They are not exactly angry young men, but they are extremely irritable. College friends with similar backgrounds, they graduated from both ...
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 ...
22 de jun. de 1992 · Kingsley Amis began his first novel, "Lucky Jim," in 1951 when he was only twenty-eight-years-old. He dedicated the book to Philip Larkin, and Larkin played an active role in editing the book. Over the years some readers and critics have felt that "Lucky Jim" was autobiographical in nature and that Amis was essentially describing his own life in the exploits of the book's central character ...
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9 de ago. de 2001 · Kingsley Amis heeft vele prijzen voor zijn boeken ontvangen en in 1990 is hij tot ridder geslagen. Titel, ondertitel en motto: Het boek heet Lucky Jim. Dit is een heel toepasselijke titel de hoofdpersoon heet namelijk James, zijn roepnaam is Jim en deze Jim wordt heel gelukkig. Het boek heeft geen ondertitel Het motto van het boek is de tekst ...
