When I first read Lucky Jim, I’m pretty sure I caught the hero’s reference to “filthy Mozart” and his disgust at “some Brahms rubbish” but ascribed them to Jim’s iconoclastic attitude toward things culturally to be revered. A more extended musical allusion in the novel is Jim’s rendering of what he calls, in demeaning terms, […]

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