LUCKY HIM: THE LIFE OF KINGSLEY AMIS
Book ID/图书代码： 10725006B07586
English Summary/英文概要： The works of the late Kingsley Amis will surely stand as some of the most original and brilliantly crafted contributions to post-war English fiction. Yet, in the light of his recently published Letters and Martin Amis’s Experience, it would appear that our understanding of this writer needs to be entirely re-thought. Kingsley Amis frequently affirmed that his fiction was not based on his life; he even issued an elaborate note of denial in a TLS essay called ’Real and Made-up People’; if some parallels were obvious (Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim was, like his creator an impoverished young academic in a provincial university), they were hardly worth comment, and the one novel by that time - 1973 - that was based on real people and actual events (I Like It Here) was written ’out of laziness or sagging invention’ and was ’by common consent, my worst’. However Professor Richard Bradford would argue in this book, the first serious study of the writer in almost a decade and the first to incorporate his Letters, that Amis’s fiction stands as one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking autobiographies ever produced. He demonstates that there exists a dynamic relationship between what Kingsley Amis did, thought, experienced and what he wrote. His literary skills were tested and extended in their dealings with the confounding, puzzling panorama of his life. Richard Bradford makes clear that a trawl through reviews of both the Letters and Experience reveals a significant distortion of the facts about Amis in the interests of PC dogma; he believes that it is not possible to offer a comprehensive picture of Kingsley Amis the man, as husband, philanderer, friend, father, jester, boozer, agnostic, pseudo-socialist and club-land Tory, without considering the relationship between what we know and that private world in which what he knew was re-examined, re-modelled and written.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 金斯利-艾米斯是美国的著名作家，写过不少小说。他一直声称他的小说并非来源于自己的生活，并成功地抹去了可能让人产生联想的线索。但本书的作者通过详细地记述和分析他的一生，还是发现了他的小说和他的生活之间的许多联系。本书从艾米斯担任的多重角色描述了他的一生：丈夫，不断追求女性的人，朋友，父亲，爱开玩笑的人，儿子，贪杯痛饮的人，不可知论者，假社会主义者，俱乐部保守党人，等。
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About the Author/作者介绍： RICHARD BRADFORD曾在几所大学工作过，现在是阿尔斯特大学的英语教授。他写过两篇关于金斯利-艾米斯的专题论文和9本书，内容涉及文学理论，文学评论，诗歌，等等。
RICHARD BRADFORD is Professor of English at the University of Ulster. He previously has taught in the universities of Oxford, Wales and in Trinity College, Dublin. He has written twelve books on a variety of subjects, including two critical monographs of Kingsley Amis.
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