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Amis called it merely 'experience with style sauce' - and the novel uses material from his own life, his trip to [[Portugal]] - he would not write such an expicitly autobiographical novel again until later works such as [[You Can't Do Both]] (1994), [[The Folks That Live on the Hill]] (1990) and, partially, [[The Biographer's Moustache]] (1995) <ref>The Guardian, review of Amis biography, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/19/biography.kingsleyamis guardian article]</ref> |
Amis called it merely 'experience with style sauce' - and the novel uses material from his own life, his trip to [[Portugal]] - he would not write such an expicitly autobiographical novel again until later works such as [[You Can't Do Both]] (1994), [[The Folks That Live on the Hill]] (1990) and, partially, [[The Biographer's Moustache]] (1995) <ref>The Guardian, review of Amis biography, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/19/biography.kingsleyamis guardian article]</ref> |
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==Notes== |
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'to Portugal, to fulfill the conditions of his [[Somerset Maugham Award]]' p.428 |
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The model for 'Oates' in the novel was - J.G.('Billy') Barley, an 'English business type' - he worked as a translator in the offices of a Portuguese family named Pinto Basto, friends of John Aeron-Thomas, a Swansea industrialist - Barley grew up in Portugal and had Portuguese nationality, but his father was English. Amis called him , in a letter to [[Philip larkin]] 10/7/55 - 'very amiable in a childish way, which is a heap better than some mature ways' - 'he doesn't quite know which country he belongs to. - he is a motor-bike maniac, endlessly discussing the engine of his German motor-scooter ("This is one of the only twelve that were ever put on the market in Portugal") - |
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the models for Harry and Isabelle Bannion - were the Tyrrells, (friends of the Browns, the Browns worked at the [[University College of Swansea]]) -- 'the wife is a [[Goa]]nese lady, a devout RC, he, a Belfast Prod by origin ' - |
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Revision as of 19:51, 3 November 2013
I Like It Here is a novel by the English writer Kingsley Amis, first published in 1958 by Victor Gollancz.
The 'here' of the title is England, and the novel is about going away from here, to abroad.
Amis called it merely 'experience with style sauce' - and the novel uses material from his own life, his trip to Portugal - he would not write such an expicitly autobiographical novel again until later works such as You Can't Do Both (1994), The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990) and, partially, The Biographer's Moustache (1995) [1]
Notes
'to Portugal, to fulfill the conditions of his Somerset Maugham Award' p.428 The model for 'Oates' in the novel was - J.G.('Billy') Barley, an 'English business type' - he worked as a translator in the offices of a Portuguese family named Pinto Basto, friends of John Aeron-Thomas, a Swansea industrialist - Barley grew up in Portugal and had Portuguese nationality, but his father was English. Amis called him , in a letter to Philip larkin 10/7/55 - 'very amiable in a childish way, which is a heap better than some mature ways' - 'he doesn't quite know which country he belongs to. - he is a motor-bike maniac, endlessly discussing the engine of his German motor-scooter ("This is one of the only twelve that were ever put on the market in Portugal") -
the models for Harry and Isabelle Bannion - were the Tyrrells, (friends of the Browns, the Browns worked at the University College of Swansea) -- 'the wife is a Goanese lady, a devout RC, he, a Belfast Prod by origin ' -
References
- ^ The Guardian, review of Amis biography, guardian article