Amis, Kingsley

Japanese: エーミス（英語表記）Amis， Kingsley

Born: April 16, 1922, London
[Died] October 22, 1995, London. British novelist and critic. Graduated from Oxford University. Served as a university lecturer, and made his debut with Lucky Jim (1954), a novel about a working-class professor who rebels against the snobbish atmosphere and behaves eccentrically. He was regarded as a representative writer of the "angry young men" movement. He subsequently published novels such as The Anti-Death League (66), Ending Up (74), and The Alteration (76), as well as essays such as Socialism and the Intellectuals (57) and Kipling and His World (75).

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Japanese:

[生]1922.4.16. ロンドン
[没]1995.10.22. ロンドン
イギリスの小説家，評論家。オックスフォード大学卒業。大学講師をつとめ，『ラッキー・ジム』 Lucky Jim (1954) で文壇に登場，俗物的雰囲気に反発して奇矯な行動を繰返す労働者階級出身の大学教師を描いて「怒れる若者たち」の代表的作家と目された。以後『反死同盟』 The Anti-Death League (66) ，『締めくくり』 Ending Up (74) ，『改変』 The Alteration (76) などの小説，『社会主義と知識人』 Socialism and the Intellectuals (57) ，『キップリングとその世界』 Kipling and His World (75) などの評論を出した。

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