Through Jim's observations, Amis does a satirical number on British university life of the 1950s. "Prefer" being a massive understatement here. But even in these colleges with plenty of working class and middle class students, Amis saw stuffy British culture completely choking the energy out of everyday life-especially the life of a young man who might prefer glasses of beer to cups of tea. Published in 1954, Lucky Jimwas Amis's way of mocking England's "redbrick" universities, which were built in industrial towns just before World War I to help regular folks get an education. He wrote everything: poetry, essays, novels, sci-fi, even some James Bond fan fiction. Amis eventually became one of England's most productive and famous writers. Kind of like the American Beat Generation Writers, but with cooler accents. Kingsley Amis was part of a 1950s literary movement that was known as the "Angry Young Men," a group of anti-establishment British writers who wrote biting satire about different aspects of British society.
Before we get to why Jim was so lucky, let's talk shop.
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