by Kingsley Amis · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467254129
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«La suerte de Jim» is Kingsley Amis's satirical novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (359 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Jim Dixon, is a medieval history lecturer at a provincial English university who tries to keep his job while enduring pedantic colleagues and superiors he despises. His clumsiness and inability to keep quiet land him in constant trouble, in a biting satire of academic life.
Work originally published in 1954; this Spanish edition appeared in 2013.
Recommended for those who enjoy academic satire and English humour, and seek a classic yet lively read.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
