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. Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of all British post-War novels.
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Fue un reconocido novelista, poeta, crítico literario y profesor, autor de una veintena de novelas, relatos breves, tres libros de poesía, guiones de radio y televisión y libros de crítica literaria y social. Fue galardonado con casi todos los premios literarios en lengua inglesa, incluidos el Booker Prize y el Sommerset Maugham. Fue el padre del también novelista Martin Amis.