The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters.

Paul Fussell, a friend and admirer of Kingsley Amis for nearly forty years, believes Mr. Amis's non-fiction has been neglected because in significant part of his outspoken, uncompromising, zealous, and often hostile opposition toward political left-wingers. Mr. Fussell aims to end that neglect of someone he considers an important Man of Letters not wholly mischaracterized as an "unreconstructed late Victorian." Throughout his very productive life, Amis has waged war against egotism, preciousness, self-satisfaction, phoniness, stinginess, and pomposity. Described by Fussell as "a critic and literary sensorium turned story-teller," Amis has fought his good fight against all forms of authoritarianism and orthodoxy, whether religious, political, social, economic, or artistic. Mr. Amis is fortunate to have a friend as loyal and learned as Mr. Fussell, but this books appreciative audience may understandably be limited to those who share the views of Mr. Amis ... and Mr. Fussell.