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David Lodge

Autor(a) de Small World

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About the Author

Writing both literary criticism and novels, British author David Lodge has learned to practice what he teaches. A professor of Modern English literature, both his fiction and nonfiction have found a large readership in the United Kingdom and the United States. To maintain his dual approach to mostrar mais writing, Lodge has attempted to alternate a novel one year and a literary criticism the next throughout his career. Lodge's fiction has been described as good writing with a good laugh, and he is praised for his ability to treat serious subjects sardonically. This comic touch is evident in his first novel, "The Picturegoers" (1960) in which the conflict of Catholicism with sensual desire, a recurrent theme, is handled with wit and intelligence. "How Far Can You Go" (1980) released in United States as "Souls and Bodies" (1982) also examines sexual and religious evolution in a marvelously funny way. "Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses" (1975, 1979), based on Lodge's experience in Berkeley as a visiting professor, won the Hawthorne Prize and the Yorkshire Post fiction prize and solidified his reputation in America. Some of the author's other hilarious novels include "Nice Work" (1989), which Lodge adapted into an award-winning television series, and "Therapy" (1995), a sardonic look at mid-life crisis. Lodge's nonfiction includes a body of work begun in 1966 with "The Language of Fiction" and includes "The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts" (1992) and "The Practice of Writing: Essays, Lectures, Reviews and a Diary"(1996). In a unique approach, he often uses his own works for critical examination and tries to give prospective writers insights into the complex creative process. David John Lodge was born in London on January 28, 1935. He has a B.A. (1955) and M.A (1959) from University College, London and a Ph.D. (1967) and an Honorary Professorship (1987) from the University of Birmingham. Lodge is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) David Lodge is the author of ten novels & a novella, including "Changing Places", "Small World" (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984), "Nice Work" (also shortlisted for the Booker), "Paradise News", "Therapy", &, most recently, "Home Truths". He is also the author of several works of literary criticism, including "The Art of Fiction" & "The Practice of Writing". He lives in Birmingham, England. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por David Lodge

Small World (1984) 2,109 exemplares
Changing Places (1975) 1,927 exemplares
Nice Work (1988) 1,807 exemplares
Therapy (1995) 1,387 exemplares
Thinks . . . (2001) 1,305 exemplares
Deaf Sentence (2008) 1,108 exemplares
The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) 922 exemplares
Paradise News (1991) 919 exemplares
How Far Can You Go? (1980) 702 exemplares
Author, Author (2004) 648 exemplares
Home Truths (1999) 448 exemplares
Out of the Shelter (1970) 392 exemplares
A Man of Parts (2011) 384 exemplares
The Practice of Writing (1996) 262 exemplares
Ginger, You're Barmy (1962) 254 exemplares
The Picturegoers (1960) 215 exemplares
Consciousness and the Novel (2002) 169 exemplares
The Writing Game: A Comedy (1991) 41 exemplares
Lives in Writing (2014) 39 exemplares
Jane Austen: "Emma": A Casebook (1968) 28 exemplares
Surprised by Summer (1996) 10 exemplares
Evelyn Waugh (1971) 5 exemplares
Therapy | Thinks . . . (2002) 4 exemplares
Varying Degrees of Success (2022) 3 exemplares
Graham Greene (1962) 3 exemplares
Essencial Tunísia 2 exemplares
San Ferry Ann 2 exemplares
Ve?ti din Paradis 1 exemplar
A Man in Paris 1 exemplar
Výkvět mužství : román (2012) 1 exemplar
Prose writings 1 exemplar
La vtoute nue 1 exemplar
Hotel des Boobs 1 exemplar
Interior Monologue 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Emma (1815) — Introdução, algumas edições37,728 exemplares
The Name of the Rose (1980) — Introdução, algumas edições19,430 exemplares
Howards End (1910) — Introdução, algumas edições8,674 exemplares
Lucky Jim (1954) — Introdução, algumas edições5,784 exemplares
The Knot of Vipers (1932) — Introdução, algumas edições944 exemplares
A Clockwork Orange [Norton Critical Edition] (2010) — Contribuidor — 914 exemplares
The Spoils of Poynton (1896) — Editor, algumas edições765 exemplares
The Slaves of Solitude (1947) — Introdução, algumas edições706 exemplares
Kipps (1905) — Introdução — 506 exemplares
One Fat Englishman (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições436 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
To the Hermitage (2000) — Biographical essay, algumas edições302 exemplares
The Return of the Pink Panther [1975 film] (1975) — Actor — 130 exemplares
Alton Locke (1856) — Introdução, algumas edições102 exemplares
The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones (1984) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Best of Ring Lardner (1984) — Editor — 40 exemplares
Ice Cold in Alex [1958 film] (1958) — Actor — 21 exemplares
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! [2022 film] (2022) — Actor — 5 exemplares
Edge of Sanity [1989 Film] (1989) — Actor — 4 exemplares
Anthony Burgess and Modernity (2008) — Prefácio — 3 exemplares

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Lodge's novels are always disturbingly on-the-mark about perennial academic situations and characters.
 
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sfj2 | 35 outras críticas | Mar 10, 2024 |
La plume de David Lodge, toujours aussi fine, jongle entre humour et réalisme sociétal avec grande intelligence. On pouvait craindre un déséquilibre gênant entre les deux personnages, carpe et lapin contraints de s'apprivoiser. Mais l'auteur parvient à équilibrer leur force d'esprit respective si bien qu'ils vont tous deux apprendre l'un de l'autre et se rendre aimables. De plus, si le roman a déjà 35 ans d'âge, les questions qu'il pose sur le monde du travail, le capitalisme, l'université ou le féminisme sont toujours d'une chaude actualité. Parsemé de clins d’œil aux deux volumes précédents, cette dernière étape clôt avec entrain une trilogie délicieuse.

Sous la forme d'un haïku :

Entrons dans la danse
De la carpe et du lapin,
Jeu de société.
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PaFink | 20 outras críticas | Jan 21, 2024 |
For some reason I have always particularly enjoyed novels sent in schools or universities, and this falls squarely in that group. I first read this book nearly forty years ago. Indeed, I was prompted to pick it up back then after having read its then recently-published sequel, Small World. While they feature many of the same characters, they also both function as stand-alone novels.

Back then, I recall enjoying the sequel more than the original. I was prompted to reread this one having seen it featured in a series of articles in The Times espousing the benefits and enjoyment to be offered from reading a selection of older books that had not quite achieved ‘Classic’ status. Another book from that series which I expect to look at soon is Graham Greene’s The Honorary Consul. I know from my nerdy list (now extending to almost 5,200 books) that I have read that, too, but it must have been even longer ago than my first turn at Changing Places, and I remember next to nothing about it.

In writing about university life David Lodge was playing with familiar material, having been a successful and prominent lecturer in English literature, teaching first for the British Council and then at Birmingham University. One of the principal protagonists who change places in the novel is Phillip Swallow, a long-established lecturer in English literature at the University of Rummidge, modelled closely on Birmingham. Swallow has developed an extremely eclectic approach to his literary studies. On the positive side, this has left him with an extensive knowledge that transcends genres, but it has also rendered him too much of a generalist to be widely recognised in academic circles. As a consequence, he has not been promoted within his department, and has little prospect of any such development in the foreseeable future.

His American counterpart is Morris Zapp, Professor of English Literature at Plotinus University, in the state of Euphoria (modelled on Berkeley in California). Zapp has a glowing reputation as a scholar of Jane Austen, and who has had a very high profile career. Ordinarily he would have no interest in an exchange to an English university other than Oxford (or perhaps that other place out in the fens), but his domestic circumstances push him into it. His latest wife is pressing for a divorce, and Zapp considers that a sojourn abroad might alleviate the tensions between them.

Consequently Swallow and Zapp exchange roles for six months, with, as the trailer for a sitcom would say, hilarious consequences. Lodge manages the contrast between their respective roles very adroitly. Unlike Zapp, Swallow does not hold a long suit when it comes to self confidence or assertiveness, and is amazed by the wholly alien approach to study and life in general on an American campus. Zapp, meanwhile, is equally shocked by the whole spectre of life in Rummidge, and by perpetually low profile maintained by his new colleagues and the student community.

There are further sharp contrasts between life on the West Coast of America and a city in the heart of the English Midlands. Nearly fifty years on from when it was written, these may seem rather cliched and predictable. However, they do, still, offer some telling insights into the differences in everyday life between the two locations.

A few years after the book was published, I would experience a similar exposure to a different world, spending a year at UCLA to do postgraduate work following on from my initial degree in Leeds. With the benefit of that perspective, I recognise the acuteness of many of David Lodge’s observations. I hasten to add that the similarities between my experiences and those of the novel’s protagonists were merely geographical.

I am glad I re-read this, and am looking forward to tackling Small World shortly.
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Eyejaybee | 35 outras críticas | Dec 11, 2023 |
Kurze Inhaltsangabe
Man konnte nun wirklich meinen, Laurence Passmore habe sich sein Leben recht nett eingerichtet: Zugegeben, er ist so gut wie kahl, und sein Spitzname ist ›Tubby‹ (= Dickerchen), aber seine Villa in Rummidge, sein Job als erfolgreicher TV-Sitcom-Autor und sein vitales Sexualleben mit seiner langjährigen Ehefrau Sally machen diese Schönheitsfehler locker wett.
Könnte man meinen. Doch Laurence fehlt ein Stück zum Glück: Zufriedenheit und Seelenruhe. Zur Pflege seiner seelischen und körperlichen Wehwehchen geht Tubby montags zur Physiotherapie, dienstags zur kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie und freitags abwechselnd zur Aromatherapie und Akupunktur, doch keine der Therapien will so recht anschlagen.
Angst, sagt seine langjährige platonische Liebe, sei der Schlüssel, den er suchen und zu dem er das passende Schloss finden müsse. Auf seiner Suche stolpert Laurence über jugendliche Penner, durch Klatschspalten und verschiedenste Betten und Schlafzimmer auf Teneriffa, in Beverly Hills, Kopenhagen und Galizien. Sein Heil findet er schließlich bei Kierkegaard und bei seiner ersten Liebe in Süd-London.
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ela82 | 19 outras críticas | Nov 14, 2023 |

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