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Chargement... Lucky Jim. (1954)par Kingsley Amis
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Favourite Books (227) » 40 plus Best Campus Novels (11) Summer Reads 2014 (30) Best Satire (58) Top Five Books of 2017 (485) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (229) Books Read in 2022 (934) Books Read in 2020 (1,897) A Novel Cure (305) Books tagged favorites (169) Academia in Fiction (42) Books Read in 2018 (3,079) 20th Century Literature (772) Folio Society (746) Nifty Fifties (37) United Kingdom (53) Edward Gorey Covers (16) First Novels (169) My TBR (46) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Postwar Britain's academia infiltrated by NCOs on government grants, working class North meets faux upper class Oxbridge. Some very funny (apt) descriptions and somewhat two dimensional characters familiar to most; although not improving with age, not suffering too much either. A little too dependent on farcical elements, ending too neatly tied with a bow to be funny, but very pleasant, a pleasant read. ( ![]() Liked, it was funny, but it seemed a little “slow” to me. My first Kingsley Amis, I’ll be glad to try another. I have just reread in the very nice Folio edition. As always it had me laughing out loud. This is definitely one of the most fun reads of all time Absolutely fantastic, brilliant, and hilarious! I was completely sucked into the story from the beginning and hated to put it down for any reason. A first-year provincial-university professor of Medieval History, who has a dislike of all things medieval, historical, or even remotely cultural, attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of romantic and professional success, with mixed results. This is a novel for misanthropes, or more appropriately, for people who find deep-seated misanthropy to be funny. If you don't find amusing the prospect of entering a party, instantly sizing up and finding reasons to hate every male present merely for being in the room, and drinking yourself to oblivion while gnashing your teeth at the fun everyone else is obviously having, then Lucky Jim probably isn't for you. I greatly enjoyed it. The sarcastic and embittered snap judgements of everyone from a romantic rival to the postman, the face-pulling, the occasional moments of clarity where even one's most avowed enemy is realized to have respectable qualities, and the fortitude to stick it to them regardless, simply because. The actual plot? Guy hates his job and, in danger of losing it, tries every desperate stratagem to keep it. Guy tries to break off his a relationship with a neurotic, manipulative emotional vampire, and makes it up to her every time he succeeds. Guy meets the girl of his dreams, feels deep in his core that he doesn't deserve her (a refrain oft-repeated by the rest of the cast of characters), but gives it a go regardless just to make things difficult for her boyfriend. I think that's pretty much it. A semester in the life of a boozing, self-loathing misanthrope.
"Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis's comic masterpiece, may be the funniest book of the past half century " Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dans
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. 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 who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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