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The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.
- Sales Rank: #934474 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-17
- Released on: 2013-09-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“This comic masterpiece about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s, is one of Amis’ greatest and most caustic performances.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Amis’s funniest novel since Lucky Jim.” —Newsweek
“Very funny...splendidly slapstick...and serious too.... A satire of wit and intelligence that class it with the best.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“The book is an underhand attack on the Englishman at large.... Amis gets in a few telling swipes at Americans and nymphomaniacs and gourmets and the people in publishing business and anything you care to mention and manages at the same time to write a beautifully witty novel.” —Vogue
“Whatever happened to Lucky Jim? He got fat. That’s the answer Kingsley Amis gives us ten years and four novels on and many people are going to find it hilariously diverting. Rightly so.” —Birmingham Post
“In the light of Amis’s subsequent literary development, and all the biographical information that has emerged since his death, it seems a much more comprehensible and interesting novel—also much funnier, in its black way, than I remembered.... One Fat Englishman is certainly a much less comfortable read than Lucky Jim, but no longer seems as inferior to it as I once thought.” —David Lodge, The Guardian
“[Protagonist] Roger Micheldene is a fat, slothful, lecherous and wrathful English publisher in the United States on as little business as he can get away with. This novel chronicles his attempts to drink as many drinks, eat as many meals and seduce as many women during his short stay as is humanly possible.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Mr. Amis is a subtle writer.... He has managed to write a commentary on America without seeming to write a commentary on America.” —The Washington Post
“The conversation is corrosive; and the characterizations, wickedly penetrating. Not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly
“Roger Micheldene, the fat Englishman, who is the titular hero of Kingsley Amis’s new novel, is easily the most repulsive figure that the imaginative Amis has invented so far, and that is saying a good deal.” —Chicago Tribune
“Like the early Evelyn Waugh, Amis has perfected the cool contemptuous tone so necessary to the comedy of bestiality, an extreme form of caricature that permits no faltering sympathy for its subject. Technically, the novel is virtually without flaw.” —The Washington Post
“Kingsley Amis writes of his fat Englishman with a mixture of contempt and sympathy. The sympathy is hard to share.” —The New York Times
About the Author
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman’s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals during World War II , he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching (“I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day”). Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteen-year marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and A Man of Parts. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Can you tell a tale of a thoroughly unpleasant man and hold the reader's attention
By Phred
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.
--Thomas Brown
There is a long tradition in many cultures of the lovable rogue the charming con man and his female counterpart the hooker with a heart of gold. Enter Roger Micheldene. Even his name is somewhat aggravating and in fact it's longer and more complicated than this but we only have to deal with that one obscure paragraph deep in the book. Roger is a man of some standing with his publishing firm but outside of whatever hold he has on an evidently comfortable job there is nothing likable about Roger. He is fat and irascible; given to adultery with as many women as have managed to hold his otherwise short attention span. He eats too much drinks incredible amounts, storms and threatens impotent violence over things that couldn't possibly be proper provocation and in fact the large mystery and perhaps the source of the satire is that people either befriend him or pretend to befriend him.
To be sure author Kingsley Amis intended One Fact English Man to be darkest humor and sharpest satire. In this short novella, 162 pages in this edition, we follow him as he moves about Budweiser College where for some strange reason he has visiting professor status. (One of the jokes of this short book is to see how many names of American beers you can identify.) Not only lionized in the college set but frequently serviced by various women even as he pursues the married Helene and ponders his second failing marriage back in England.
My suspicion is that the real satire here is not Roger but the various pretenses and shows of deference being staged partially for his entertainment by a presumably clever and sophisticated college set with whom he is mingling.
In one short phrase I do not remember laughing once at any point during this book. I rather doubt I ever smiled or otherwise quite got the humor. Part of the reason for my response to this book is one of the worst introductions I have ever read. David Lodge the author of this brief intro is normally one of my favorite writers and can usually be counted upon to say something humorous. Instead in about five pages Lodge focuses entirely on the possible link between the Roger of this book and Kingsley's own pending self-destructive habits.
There are autobiographical elements to this book based on the fact that both the author and Roger had visiting professor status in American colleges. There is more than some evidence that Kingsley Amis lived in a very dissipated life among his American counterparts. It is something of a legend that upon reading the script to this book Kinsley's first wife proceeded to divorce him.
There are swipes at all manner of pretensions whether academic literary gastronomic or for that matter cigars but the humor is so bleached bone dry that that it is difficult for a lover of dry humor to catch much of it.
Two things redeem One Fat Englishmen: it is very short and Kingsley Amis is a very adept wordsmith. I can recommend this book as an opportunity to enjoy the use of English. Indeed there are a few mostly unnecessary segues into minor differences between the English language as spoken in America and as spoken in England. The fixation on some of these very minor constructs may have been funny in the very early 60s.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
... other four reviewers who think this book was no good. I read Lucky Jim Then the anti death ...
By Michael D. McGuire
An Aging Lucky Jim
I have to disagree with the other four reviewers who think this book was no good. I read Lucky Jim
Then the anti death league, then this. The anti death league wasn't very good, but the fat Englishman was quite amusing.
A bit of a meld of the older Van Veen and a (non pedophilic) Humbert almost. Academia is really a tower of s*** and Amis seemed to know this.
Lots of hilarious characters and situations
Well worth the read . . .
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Hilarious but dark
By Ethan Cooper
On the back of the NYRB edition of ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN, a blub describes protagonist Roger Micheldene as “a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic…” and as “philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything...” Well, IMO this character is hilarious as he schemes to bed the beautiful Helene, readies an explanation for rejecting the excellent first-novel of the cheeky Irving Macher, and exacts his stealthy revenge on the five-year-old Arthur, who beats him at Scrabble. But at some point, maybe the final ten percent of the book, the engine of the narrative shifts from Roger’s humorous and selfish scheming to his rage. Then, OFE seems to lose its edge, since the character Roger, without his scheming, seems to represent nothing bigger than his goatish and dipsomaniacal selfishness. OFE, in other words, ends small, when Amis does no more than show Roger’s ugly nature.
This is not to say that OFE is not an enjoyable book. On the contrary, this novel, which was published in 1963, probably shows the 41-year-old Kingsley Amis at the very peak of his comic and literary powers. Readers who enjoyed LUCKY JIM, THAT CERTAIN FEELING, THE GREEN MAN, and THE OLD DEVILS are sure to like this book as well, which is filled with caustic and comic insight. Here, for example, is Roger at a cocktail party, taking the measure of the young, talented, and assertive (everything Roger hates) Macher, who is talking to Grace, the party’s hostess.
“… hard to tell whether or not she thought she was having nonsense talked to her. Roger guessed she did, though without feeling as much conviction as he would have liked. To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanistic-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense, and so on. Macher’s nonsense stopped before he could get deep enough into it… Roger sat watching like a sniper waiting for a clear shot at a general.”
This novel does seem to have a few flaws. For example, the motivation of the adulterous Helene eluded me while the social blindness of her pedantic husband did not seem credible. Nonetheless, OFE is not-to-be-missed by Kingsley’s fans. Rounded up and recommended.
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