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The Amises: Lucky Jim vs. The Rachel Papers
- Source :
- Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, Vol V, Iss 2, Pp 57-62 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad, 2014.
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Abstract
- With all the literary and political differences between father and son, what is striking about their literary careers is the way they parallel each other: Kingsley was thirty-one when his first novel, Lucky Jim, was published (1953); Martin was twenty – four when he published The Rachel Papers (1973). Lucky Jim was a runaway best seller and a book that defined a generation. That was not quite true of Martin’s early books, but he had enough precocious reward. No other father-son tandem has produced a corpus as sizable and significant as that of Sir Kingsley Amis and his son. They have maintained not only a quality of writing, but also duration of productivity that other literary families have simply not matched.
Details
- Language :
- German, English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- ISSN :
- 20676557 and 22472371
- Volume :
- V
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.1c83ed5bd4114bc0be0b660acea9ed0c
- Document Type :
- article