Bookmark: Kingsley Amis (1991), Part One
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2012
- On the occasion of the publication of his memoirs, writer Kingsley Amis is the subject of this episode of Bookmark. In addition to his backround and upbringing, family life and literary inspiration, Amis also speaks of his friendship with poet Phillip Larkin and other British literary lions of his generation.
Happy 100th Birthday, Sir Kingsley
(April 16, 2022)
Thanks for sharing this.
This is pure gold 🏅
Looks fascinating. Looking forward to watching. Thanks.
Very cool. Thank you very much for uploading this..!
If you like Kingsley Amis then for your own sake, and for entertainment's sake, read Martin Amis's autobiography 'Experience.' Half of it is about KA, and seriously it has everything: a laugh every page, at times terribly poignant, full of glorious anecdotes and most notably it's seriously very well written - it's Martin Amis, after all - I don't mind admitting it even made me go a bit husky and brave at times too - often very moving. Thanks for posting this, wonderful!
Absolutely agree - Martin Amis's occasionally exasperated love for his father - along with a rueful admission that he's basically turning into the same person - leaps off the page. Wonderful book.
Made me tear up on the Drain tube to Bank one morning. Sleep deprivation probably helped. But still
@@crabman2020 is this Rick & Morty? No, it’s Martin Amis, so wipe your eyes and fuc* you !! 💐
Jake's Thing is a monument for novels
Hitchens brought me here.
same
Me too
Hitchens Lives on ...
THANKS YOU! love this man
Wonderful novelist, if you fail to laugh out loud whilst reading Lucky Jim or Jake's Thing you should check your pulse.
I'll check my pulse but you should check your sense of humour. I wish I liked Amis pere even half as much as Amis fils, as writer and human being.
Jake’s Thing was shit.
@@regmunday8354 what is is pere and fils?
@@cmhardin37 French for father and son.
As in F. Scott Fils Gerald
Can you imagine any celebrated writer today allowing themselves to be filmed doing their morning ablutes in all their glory?
He really let them "invade" his life...watching him shaving, cereal boxes, etc. Not many writers, intellectuals would be that open or, in that way, unpretentious. I rather admire him for that. Could you see Nabokov allowing this? Hitchens? Dawkins? All those other modern thinkers?
Hitchens, most certainly yes.
Their monthly drinks bill didn’t total over £1,000.
Next.
I enjoyed this thank you for posting
Thank you so much for posting this. I loved this documentary when I first saw it on the box and I had begun to despair of it ever appearing on YT. Kingsley Amis: easily the best post-war British novelist and, as this film demonstrates, Britain's most interesting literary figure by a long chalk. Who fills his shoes now? Certainty not his son.
#Tolkein is the best British post war novelist.
@@aclark903 nice joke
@@trustme2674 He is consistently rated so by not just me but the British public.
@@aclark903 people also consistently rate marvel movies as very good, doesnt make them so.
Same with writing, i can appreciate Tolkien for laying the foundation of modern high fantasy but thats about it.
Read his books before posting. nonsense.
@@trustme2674 Sure. Write something better or shut up.
Proud to be the 15th viewer.
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Jesus, the man is talking about MY family.
I don't know, but I would guess it's Bix Beiderbecke or one of his contemporaries of whom KA remained fond throughout his life.
Love him-
Martin Amis is a peacock.
Patrick Hamilton's the best.
Agreed.
He looks debauched!!
Drinks with hitchens brought me here.