![]() ![]() Paul Fussell: Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man Of Letters Richard Bradford: Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis Most of the rest of his work is of little worth. Amis was an Angry Young Man and a communist in his youth but became very much a boring old fart in his old age. Last, and very definitely least, he spawned the revolting Martin Amis. ![]() The fact that it poked fun at the Establishment is very much in its favour. Secondly, he wrote Lucky Jim, a trivial novel but one that was both amusing and helped moved the English novel forward by taking the university novel out of Oxbridge and into the redbrick universities. Firstly, he was one of the earliest English writers to recognise the importance of science fiction ( New Maps of Hell is an early study). ![]() As he is fairly low on the middle-brow chain, Kingsley Amis really should not be here but there are three reasons for including him. ![]()
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