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Chargement... Lucky Jim (original 1954; édition 2000)par Kingsley Amis
Information sur l'oeuvreLucky Jim. par Kingsley Amis (1954)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Interesting, this. I wasn't really interested in the setting, nor did I find the characters particularly engaging. Pllot-wise it felt a bit perfunctory, like a string of set-pieces. And while it is funny, it's not _that_ funny. On top of that the resolution is a bit too neat - the title almost feels like an excuse for Kingsley not having come up with a more convincing denouement. And yet, and yet, the writing is - the actual sentences are - just great. And almost surprisingly that's enough. La suerte de Jim Kingsley Amis Publicado: 1954 | 242 páginas Novela Humor Serie: Áncora & Delfín #1090 Lasuerte de Jim esun clásico de la literatura inglesa y de la narrativa satírica de todos lostiempos que, sorprendentemente, nunca se había traducido al castellano. Estanovela irónica y mordaz, publicada por vez primera en 1954, relata las andanzasde Jim Dixon, un anodino profesor de historia medieval de una provincianauniversidad inglesa que se desenvuelve con torpeza entre sus colegas alintentar mantener su flamante puesto de profesor de segunda y complacer a sussuperiores. Através de sus enredos y desventuras, Kingsley Amis traza una sátira brillantede la vida inglesa con una ironía finísima e hilarante. Éstees uno de los clásicos más divertidos de la historia de la literatura, unanovela que se convirtió en un mito popular de la literatura anglosajona deposguerra y que no ha perdido un ápice de su encanto. Really, really funny. Reminded me a lot of Robertson Davies, especially The Cornish Trilogy https://www.goodreads.com/series/53773-the-cornish-trilogy
"Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis's comic masterpiece, may be the funniest book of the past half century " Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPrix et récompensesListes notables
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HTML: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." Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics, with each of 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 post-war 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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Dixon looked out of the side window, and his spirits rose at once at the sight of the darkened countryside moving past him. This ride, unlike most of the things that happened to him, was something he’d rather have than not have. He’d got something he wanted, and whatever the cost in future embarrassment he was ready to meet it. He reflected that the Arab proverb urging this kind of policy was incomplete: to "take what you want and pay for it" it should add "which is better than being forced to take what you don’t want and paying for that." It was one more argument to support his theory that nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ( )