![]() The other is a Turkish novel, published in 2008, which seeks to deconstruct masculinity and what it means to be a man.īoth, read in the early 21st century, are disturbing if you would like to think we are making progress in matters of gender equality. ![]() One is a novice novelist’s first book, published in 1954, at a time when the very concept of feminism barely existed. Having had another look at both The Museum of Innocence and Lucky Jim, what is most striking is how different they are. In particular, are they similar in the way they treat women? I reviewed Pamuk’s book recently on this site. Rather, he reminded me of the loathsome Kemal, in Orhan Pamuk’s scary and thought-provoking novel The Museum of Innocence. What I was less sure of was how likeable Kingsley Amis’s eponymous first person narrator is. But it was still full of laugh-out-loud moments, including the one above. ![]() Re-reading the book recently I felt it had not aged well. This exchange struck me as summing up both how some women speak and how some men react. ![]() I first read Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim several decades ago. It also tells the truth about how men think.ĭixon wanted to rush at her and tip her backwards in the chair, to make a deafening rude noise in her face, to push a bead up her nose. ![]() Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis contains some of the finest comic set pieces in literature. ![]()
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