David Lodge in general

David Lodge in general: NICE WORK: OF MANAGERS AND LECTURERS (1995 words)
by MagdaDH - written on 04.10.04 (Very useful, 2013 readings)
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This is a review of 'Nice Work', placed in the general David Lodge category for a want of better place in dooyoo database. In my defense I would say that this is one of the best and also fairly typical Lodge novel. --- Back to Rummidge--- For those unfamiliar with the setting, in author's own words "Rummidge is an imaginary city, with imaginary universities and imaginary factories, inhabited by imaginary people which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of so called real world." The book is set around the unlikely relationship between Victor Wilcox, a Managing Director of a ...

Great author's Brum notes (811 words)
by Daz_S - written on 06.10.02 (Very useful, 434 readings)
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"There are far too many writers around who have nothing to say but insist on saying it again and again in book after book..." So says Adrian Ludlow in David Lodge's novella 'Home Truths'. Can the same be said of Lodge himself? He's clearly aware of the risk: his output has been steady - 12 novels as well as several books of criticism in a 43-year career. Most authors start repeating themselves. Many - Philip Roth for instance - resort to writing endlessly about being a famous writer, until they disappear up their own word processors. But David Lodge has managed to keep things fresh, although certain themes do recur. Sex, Catholicism, ...