English language
Published May 3, 2012 by New York Review Books.
Amis’s debut novel, published in 1954, is a satire on academia. The protagonist is a bored and disinterested history lecturer at a provincial university, trapped in a joyless and sexless relationship with a depressive fellow lecturer. The book immediately elevated Amis to fame as one of the leading writers of his generation.
There was an entertaining book hidden in here somewhere. I enjoyed it enough but found the humor quite grating.
Pulling wild faces and jumping around pretending to be a monkey are just too juvenile for my taste.
He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhapinness, the sense that that is where we belong.
