Da li je Kingzli Ejmis bio ženomrzac?
Was Kingsley Amis a Misogynist

Summary/Abstract: Among the many controversies surrounding the work and the persona of Kingsley Amis, the one about his misogyny, allegedly exemplified by the novels Jake’s Thing and Stanley and the Women, stands out in particular. Such was the wrath of influential feminists and “honorary feminist chaps” that the latter almost did not get published in America – land of the free. What was clearly at work here was the tendency to draw isomorphic connections between the author and the protagonists of his novels, especially the nastier ones. Another major contributing factor was Amis’s increasingly irksome public persona: by the time the above novels were published, Amis had turned into something of a curmudgeon-in-residence to the nation, always ready to come out with right-wing views on virtually any topic of current interest. The paper analyses the above novels in the context of Amis’s opus in its entirety, focusing on the way female characters are generally treated in his work and on Amis’s narrative strategy, also taking into account Amis’s poetry, which, as opposed to his novels, was often confessional in character, as well as the views and reminiscences of Elizabeth Jane Howard, Kingsley’s second wife and a writer of note, which shed light on Kingsley’s attitudes towards women and his often convoluted relationships with them.

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