by Kingsley Amis · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140144758
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«The Russian Girl» is Kingsley Amis's satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In the novel, Richard, a Russian professor at the University of London, endures an unhappy marriage with Claudia. When a Russian poetess contacts him, a relationship unfolds that tests his principles and apparent stability. With irony and a satirical eye, Amis portrays the academic and literary milieu and the dilemmas between love and morality.
Work originally published in 1992; this Penguin paperback edition appeared on 4 March 1993.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and social satire, especially those seeking stories set in the university environment.
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.
