Lucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Set sometime around 1950, Lucky Jim follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant Medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university (based in part on the University of Leicester). The novel uses a precise and seemingly plain-spoken narrative voice.
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- Lucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Set sometime around 1950, Lucky Jim follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant Medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university (based in part on the University of Leicester). The novel uses a precise and seemingly plain-spoken narrative voice. The title is a reference to a popular music hall drinking song, "Oh Lucky Jim, How I Envy Him". It is supposed that Kingsley Amis arrived at 'Lucky Jim' Dixon's surname from a certain address, 12 Dixon Drive, Leicester - the address of the poet Philip Larkin, from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university. Lucky Jim is dedicated to Larkin who inspired the main character. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Christopher Hitchens has described it as the best comic novel of the second half of the 20th century, and Toby Young has claimed that it is the best comic novel of the 20th century.
- Sept Jours de malheur (Lucky Jim) est un film britannique réalisé par John Boulting, sorti en 1957.
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- Lucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Set sometime around 1950, Lucky Jim follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant Medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university (based in part on the University of Leicester). The novel uses a precise and seemingly plain-spoken narrative voice.
- Sept Jours de malheur (Lucky Jim) est un film britannique réalisé par John Boulting, sorti en 1957.
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