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In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers.With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to describe honestly and in some detail the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres: prose fiction, literary...

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to describe honestly and in some detail the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres: prose fiction, literar...

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...

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David Lodge (CBE)¿s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des Let...

Unique responses to the challenge of representing human consciousness in the literature, drawing examples from John Updike, Martin Amis and many other notable writers, are considered across this collection of essays, alongside reflections from Lodge on how he overcomes these challenges in his own fiction.

David Lodge nasce a Londra il 28 gennaio 1935, un momento piuttosto buono, per un futuro scrittore, per nascere in Inghilterra. Ha quattro anni quando scoppia la seconda guerra mondiale e cresce attraversando decenni di grandi cambiamenti sociali e culturali, che gli offriranno parecchio materiale di prima mano per la sua attività di scrittore. Qui Lodge ripercorre l'infanzia e la giovinezza, gli anni allo University College di Londra, l'incon...

The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form.The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Dr...

Novelist, critic, lecturer, reviewer, man-about-conferences, David Lodge, as both analyst and practitioner, is one of our foremost experts in the forms of fiction. He is also an uncommonly sympathetic and informed observer of the passing scene, and his penetrating vision is set in a consistently ironic frame. David Lodge's humour can be a devastating weapon, but it is continually engaging because as often as not the sniper's sights are trained...

In this title, David Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction, mainly English and American, in the light of developments in cognitive science, neuroscience and related disciplines. He includes essays on Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, John Updike, Henry James and others.

Offers a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching of the same and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage.

From the author of the Booker Prize finalist Small World. Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the "A" level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Fanny Tarrant, one of the new breed of Rottweiler interviews, in a ...

Traducere si note de Radu Pavel Gheo. „In 1965, in timpul Conciliului Vatican II, pe cind scria acest roman, Lodge se astepta ca interdictia asupra folosirii anticonceptionalelor, impusa de Biserica Romano-Catolica, sa ramina doar o amintire. Incercind sa vina in sprijinul reformistilor, romancierul descrie aici o zi din viata lui Adam Appleby, un tinar doctorand de confesiune catolica care ia in serios respectiva interdictie si vede cum...

Desmond Bates è un professore di linguistica in pensione e come tale cerca di godersi le piccole gioie della vita quotidiana: ma a dirla tutta, non è convinto che le giornate trascorse lontano dal Dipartimento e dalle sessioni d'esame siano poi questo grande spasso. Dopo essere rimasto vedovo, si è sposato in seconde nozze con Winifred Holt, un'ex allieva che ha messo in piedi insieme a un'amica una galleria d'arte e arredamento di ottimo e cr...

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well b...

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