by Kingsley Amis · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417115418
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Jim Dixon finds himself in a delicate situation as a professor of Medieval History at the university, where he must publish an article to secure his position and maintain a good relationship with the head of his department, Professor Welch. In addition, he tries to conquer Margaret, a colleague who is recovering from a breakup. Will Jim have luck on his side? This new translation of Kingsley Amis' acclaimed novel, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, is a satire of British university life, full of misanthropy and humor.
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.
