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David Lodge


Born
in Brockley, London, England, The United Kingdom
January 28, 1935

Died
January 01, 2025

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Humor


David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T.S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a colle ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 117,721 ratings · 10,113 reviews · 157 distinct works • Similar authors
Changing Places (The Campus...
3.82 avg rating — 9,487 ratings — published 1975 — 72 editions
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Small World (The Campus Tri...
3.88 avg rating — 6,556 ratings — published 1984 — 73 editions
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Nice Work (The Campus Trilo...
3.86 avg rating — 6,109 ratings — published 1988
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Deaf Sentence
3.75 avg rating — 4,932 ratings — published 2008 — 54 editions
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Therapy
3.79 avg rating — 4,493 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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The British Museum Is Falli...
3.63 avg rating — 3,486 ratings — published 1965 — 51 editions
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The Art of Fiction
3.92 avg rating — 3,109 ratings — published 1992 — 64 editions
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Thinks . . .
3.69 avg rating — 3,261 ratings — published 2001 — 49 editions
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Paradise News
3.77 avg rating — 2,487 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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How Far Can You Go?
3.75 avg rating — 1,705 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
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“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
― David Lodge, Small World
tags: desire, pleasure, reading, text
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“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
― David Lodge
tags: life
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“I've been in love with you for weeks.'
There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'
Haven't you ever been in love, then?'
When I was younger,' she says, 'I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes.'
What the hell does that mean?'
We aren't essences, Vic. We aren't unique individual essences existing prior to language. There is only language.”
― David Lodge
tags: love
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