والان مع سر الروعة في رواية:

65 ـ جيم المحظوظ،للمؤلف كينغسلي آميس.
خلال صفحات الرواية الـ366 لم أتوقف إلا مرتين ، حيث شدني الأسلوب الذي اتخذه الكاتب ، بطل الرواية هو أستاذ جامعي ، واقع تحت ضغوط معينة وفي مشاكل إجتماعية وعاطفية عدة ، تتشابك المشاكل وتتداخل في منعطفات عدة ، وفي كل مرة فإن هذا الأستاذ يخرج من مشكلة بمشكلة أخرى ، لعل ماشدني أكثر من أسلوب الكاتب هو أني أجد شبها طفيفا بيني وبين الأستاذ بطل الرواية في الإستهبال وفي سوء الحظ أيضا ، القصة بشكل عام تسخر من المجتمع الذي يعيش فيه الكاتب وكمية الزيف والكذب فيه ..
على الجانب السلبي فإن ترجمة النص لم توصل بعض الأفكار بشكل جيد ، وكمية الاخطاء الإملائية كانت كثيرة نسبيا ..
الرواية حازت على جائزة سومرسيت ماوغام ، وأيضا تم تحويلها إلى فيلم في العام 1957 ، وتم إعادة تصوير الفلم من جديد في العام 2003 ..
نبذة الناشر:
لا يسجل لنا جيم عبر صفحات هذه الرواية المظاهر الزائفة والكاذبة للمجتمع الأكاديمي في إحدى الكليات الموجودة في مدينة إنكليزية صغيرة بعيدة عن العاصمة لندن فحسب، بل إنه يبدو لنا جزءاً من اللعبة في هذه الكوميديا، لأنه هو الآخر يضفي على شخصيته في كثير من الأحيان الكثير من مظاهر الزيف والخداع، إذ تضطره ظروفه ومزاجه إلى التظاهر الكاذب أمام محيطه. فهو يدعي أنه باحث شاب وأستاذ جامعي، لكنه في الوقت نفسه يكرس تدريس مادة التاريخ ويحتقر زملاءه. ويتظاهر بأنه يشفق على زميلته مارغريت ويتعاطف وإياها، إلا أنه يجدها سطحية حقاً وتبعث على الملل. غير أن ما يغفر لجيم سلوكه هذا، هو أنه يقر بأن كل ما حوله من مظاهر هو زائف وكاذب.

Lucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Set sometime around 1950, Lucky Jim follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant Medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial Englishuniversity (based in part on the University of Leicester[1]). The novel uses a precise and seemingly plain-spoken narrative voice.
The title is a reference to a popular music hall drinking song, "Oh Lucky Jim, How I Envy Him". It is supposed that Kingsley Amis arrived at 'Lucky Jim' Dixon's surname from a certain address, 12 Dixon Drive, Leicester - the address of the poet Philip Larkin, from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university. [2] Lucky Jim is dedicated to Larkin who inspired the main character.[3]
Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[4]
Christopher Hitchens has described it as the best comic novel of the second half of the 20th century, and Toby Young has claimed that it is the best comic novel of the 20th century.[5][6]

Jim Dixon is a Medieval history lecturer at a provincial university in the North of England. Dixon is a grammar school educated working class boy, and does not have the social skills expected in the provincial British middle class society of the day. Having made a bad first impression in the department, he is concerned about being fired at the end of his first year. In an attempt to retain his job, he tries to maintain a good relationship with his superior, Professor Welch - an often absent-minded and unbearably pompous dilettante. He also attempts, unsuccessfully, to publish his article on the economic ramifications of medieval shipbuilding. Dixon appears to find a willing publisher - a brand new academic journal.
Dixon struggles with an on-again off-again "girlfriend" Margaret Peel (a fellow lecturer), who is recovering from a failed suicide attempt after her previous boyfriend dumped her. Margaret employs a mixture of emotional blackmail and appeal to Dixon's sense of duty and pity to keep him in an ambiguous and sexless relationship. Professor Welch holds an "arty" weekend that seems to be an opportunity for Dixon to advance his standing amongst his colleagues, but this goes dreadfully wrong when Dixon gets drunk and burns his host's bedclothes. At the weekend, Dixon meets Christine Callaghan, a young Londoner who is dating Professor Welch's son Bertrand - an amateur painter whose pomposity particularly infuriates Dixon. After a bad start, Dixon realizes he is attracted to Christine, who is far less pretentious than she initially appears. Dixon's obvious attempts to court Christine upset Bertrand who is using his relationship with her to reach her well-connected Scottish uncle, who is seeking an assistant in London. Dixon rescues Christine from the university's annual dance when Bertrand treats her badly. The pair kiss and make a tea date, but during the date Christine admits she feels too guilty about seeing Dixon behind Bertrand's back and because Dixon is supposed to be seeing Margaret. The two decide not to continue seeing each other.
Meanwhile, Margaret's ex-boyfriend telephones Dixon and asks to see him to discuss Margaret.
The novel reaches its climax during Dixon's public lecture on "Merrie England," which goes horribly wrong as Dixon, attempting to calm his nerves with a little too much alcohol, uncontrollably begins to mock Welch and everything else that he hates; he finally goes into convulsions and passes out. Welch, of course, fires Dixon.
However, Christine's uncle, who reveals a tacit respect for Dixon's individuality and attitude towards pretension, offers Dixon the coveted assistant job in London that pays much better than his lecturing position. Dixon then meets Margaret's ex-boyfriend, who reveals that he was not exactly Margaret's boyfriend at all, and the two realize that the suicide attempt was faked to emotionally blackmail both men. Dixon feels he is free of Margaret. Dixon finally has the last laugh, as Christine finds out Bertrand was also pursuing an affair with the wife of one of Dixon's former colleagues; she decides to pursue her relationship with Dixon. At the end of the book, Dixon and Christine bump into the Welches on the street; Jim cannot help walking right up to them, with Christine on his arm, and exploding in laughter at how ridiculous they truly are.