![]() ![]() After all Amis became notoriously hostile to progressive causes and a political supporter of Margaret Thatcher. Yet many have wondered just how funny and critical Amis, particularly the Amis of the later novels, really was. As a contributor to The Spectator put it, ‘He was above all quick-minded, verbally agile, terribly funny, a vigorous persecutor of bores, pseuds and wankers and a most tremendous mimic.’ Such was the continued acclaim for his work that in 1986 he won the Booker prize for The Old Devils. After making his mark with Lucky Jim (1954) he never looked back, as one comic novel after the other flowed from his pen. When Kingsley Amis died last year at the age of 73, the general verdict was that he had been the greatest comic novelist of his generation. Marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL). ![]() Gareth Jenkins Why Lucky Jim Turned Right An Obituary of Kingsley Amis (March 1996)įrom International Socialism 2 : 70, March 1996.Ĭopied with thanks from the International Socialism Archive. Gareth Jenkins: Why Lucky Jim Turned Right - An Obituary of Kingsley Amis (March 1996) ![]()
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