David Lodge

Encerrado en su casa de Regent’s Park, en pleno blitz, el escritor Herbert George Wells, «H. G.» para los amigos, intuye que se está muriendo. Una vez fue el novelista más famoso del mundo, «el hombr

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Back in Rummidge, scene of Changing Places, Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature and Vic Willcox, MD of Pringle and Sons Industrial Engineering meet when they take part in an &

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica - the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World ...

The humorous story of a former priest and lecturer in theology who pays a final visit to his dying aunt in Hawaii.

Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first day of the last year of the tumultuous sixties dawns, Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp are the designated exchangees. They know they'll be swapping class rosters, but what they don't know is that in a wildly spiraling transatlantic involvement they'll soon be swapping students, colleagues, and even wives. Changing Places is a hilarious send-up of academic life, intellectual fashion, sex, and marriage by a writer Anthony Burgess has called "one of the best novelists of his generation."

Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii.

In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them.With insightful and amusing candour, here he traces the history of his book from conception to publication, pondering the mystery - and indeed the anguish - of so many novels about James appearing at the same time.Lodge's reflections on his own creative practice are accompanied by studies of the genesis, composition and reception of key works by James himself, as well as other novelists from George Eliot to Vladimir Nabokov, and J.M. Coetzee to Graham Greene.

"Desmond Bates e un professore in pensione. Vedovo, si e risposato con Winifred Holt, una sua ex allieva, molto piu giovane, che mentre lui si e ritirato a vita privata a causa della sua sordita (diventava impossibile o imbarazzante partecipare a conferenze, lezioni, seminari ecc.), ha messo in piedi, con successo, insieme a un'amica, una galleria d'arte e design. La cosa provoca in Desmond qualche risentimento, perche la moglie guadagna piu di lui. Ma soprattutto Desmond a causa della sua sordita accumula figure ridicole e imbarazzanti in societa, come quando, a una vernissage nella galleria della moglie, conosce Alex, una giovane studentessa, e, senza sentire esattamente cosa lei gli chiede, le promette aiuto, ritrovandosi poi in situazioni sempre piu intricate. Ma nonostante fatiche e figuracce il professore non si da per vinto e combatte senza segni di cedimento. "

"Sono sei brevi racconti: ""Dove arde il solleone"", un'altalena sentimentale un po retro tra due giovani coppie in vacanza, circa quarant'anni fa, a Ibiza; ""Il mio primo lavoro"", l'apprendistato ad una stazione ferroviaria di un giovane venditore di giornali, che scopre le regole del mondo dei ""grandi"" e perde la sua innocenza; ""Camera con vista sulla piscina"", nella piscina di un hotel della Costa Azzurra, le schermaglie amorose fra un uomo e la moglie gelosa; ""L'uomo che non voleva alzarsi"", un uomo rifiuta di alzarsi dal letto; ""L'avaro"" i sogni a occhi aperti di tre bambini del dopoguerra; ""Pastorale"", la cronaca di una recita parrocchiale organizzata da un ragazzo per poter star vicino alla ragazza che ama. "

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives. When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the academic year and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss -- a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment, leading Desmond into mistakes, misunderstandings and follies. It might be comic for others, but for the deaf person himself, it is no joke. It is his deafness which inadvertently involves Desmond with a young woman whose wayward behaviour threatens to destabilize his life completely.

L'art de la fiction est traité à travers de nombreux thèmes comme les interventions d'auteur, le suspense, le roman épistolaire, le monologue intérieur, le réalisme magique, le symbolisme, et chacun illustré par des extraits d'un roman classique ou moderne. S'appuyant sur des écrivains aussi différents que Henry James et Martin Amis, Jane Austen et Fay Weldon, Henry Fielding et James Joyce, David Lodge rend accessibles à tous la richesse et la variété de la littérature anglaise et américaine. Apportant à la critique littéraire la verve et l'humour de ses propres romans, David Lodge fournit aux étudiants en littérature, aux écrivains aspirants et à quiconque souhaite comprendre le fonctionnement de la littérature sa méthode et son interprétation. Professeur honoraire de littérature à l'université de Birmingham, David Lodge a enseigné de 1960 à 1987. Auteur de romans, de pièces de théâtre, il a publié cinq livres de critique littéraire, un recueil d'essais et « édité » des anthologies de textes classiques. L'Art de la fiction est paru en 1991 sous forme d'articles dans The Independant on Sunday.

David Lodge est né à Londres en 1935. Après des études à l'University College, il a enseigné la littérature anglaise jusqu'en 1987 à l'université de Birmingham et donné des conférences dans le monde entier, notamment à Berkeley. Auteur d'une oeuvre importante qui comprend des essais critiques et de nombreux romans, David Lodge a reçu de nombreuses distinctions. Il est membre de la Société Royale de Littérature. Desmond, professeur de linguistique s'ennuie. Ce veuf marié à Winifred une divorcée qui vibrionne dans un magasin de déco très en vue dans la grande ville de province où ils habitent a pris une retraite anticipée. S'il a saisi l'occasion de se retirer lors d'une restructuration de départements c'est pour une raison bien simple : Desmond a des problèmes d'ouïe. Il n'est pas sourdingue mais, tout de même, dur de la feuille. Son ordinaire est donc rythmé par la lecture du Guardian, le shopping domestique, les visites londoniennes à son père de plus en plus seul au monde et les activités culturo-mondaines de son épouse. C'est d'ailleurs pendant un vernissage et alors qu'il ne comprend pas un traître mot et répond au petit bonheur la chance qu'une étudiante en thèse lance sur lui ce qui ressemble très vite à une OPA.

Escriptors tan diversos com Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Fay Weldon o James Joyce donen peu a un complet aclariment dels ressorts de l'obra a narrativa i de l'explicació de termes t

David Lodge's The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. It tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.

Like Colm Tóibín's THE MASTER, David Lodge's novel is an exploration of the last years of Henry James. Beginning in the 1880s, when James has become an internationally famous and successful novelist, Lodge takes the reader deeply into the writer's life as he struggles with the disjunctions between his life and his work, and attempts to turn tragedy into art. At the end of the novel, Lodge, a longtime admirer of James's novels, writes a short and very personal appreciation.