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Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics) (original 1954; udgave 2012)

af Kingsley Amis (Forfatter)

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) 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.".
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Titel:Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics)
Forfattere:Kingsley Amis (Forfatter)
Info:NYRB Classics (2012), Edition: Reprint, 296 pages
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Lucky Jim af Kingsley Amis (1954)

Nyligt tilføjet afBctiger24, privat bibliotek, HildadeGaris, VinSalad, AlexiaR, sircalidore, albertgoldfain, cspiwak
Efterladte bibliotekerNelson Algren, Flannery O'Connor
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It's hard not to admire a novel that fails to prove this particular thesis:

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. ( )
  sircalidore | Mar 10, 2024 |
Fun, sort of a Jeeves and Wooster if Wooster we’re smarter and a bit less sweet ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
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.
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1 stem thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
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.
  libreriarofer | Nov 22, 2023 |
Really, really funny. Reminded me a lot of Robertson Davies, especially The Cornish Trilogy https://www.goodreads.com/series/53773-the-cornish-trilogy
  lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |
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"Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis's comic masterpiece, may be the funniest book of the past half century "
 

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Oh, lucky Jim,
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Oh, lucky Jim,
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'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.
Lucky Jim was first published by Victor Gollancz in January 1954. (Introduction)
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Christine was still prettier and nicer than Margaret, and all the deductions that could be drawn from that fact should be drawn: there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
"I am sorry to hear of your difficulties, Mr Dickinson, but I'm afraid things are too difficult here for me to be very seriously concerned about your difficulties..."
The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-county run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.
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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) 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.".

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