David Lodge

Con la amenidad y el humor característicos de todas sus novelas, David Lodge ofrece un libro agradable y altamente instructivo que está destinado a convertirse en una obra imprescindible para estudiantes de literatura, escritores en ciernes y todos aquellos que deseen averiguar y comprender los mecanismos internos de la ficcion.El arte de la ficcion reune un ciclo de articulos de critica literaria en los que David Lodge analiza, partiendo siempre de uno o dos fragmentos de novelas clasicas o modernas, los principales aspectos y posibilidades del arte de la ficcion: el narrador omnisciente, la novela epistolar, el tiempo, el realismo magico, el simbolismo, la ironiaEscritores tan diversos como Henry James o Martin Amis, Jane Austen o Fay Weldon, Henry Fielding o James Joyce dan pie a un completo esclarecimiento de los resortes de la obra narrativa y a la explicacion de terminos tecnicos como el punto de vista, el monologo interior, la intertextualidadCon la amenidad y el humor característicos de todas sus novelas, David Lodge ofrece un libro agradable y altamente instructivo que está destinado a convertirse en una obra imprescindible para estudiantes de literatura, escritores en ciernes y todos aquellos que deseen averiguar y comprender los mecanismos internos de la ficcion.

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary.In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life-writing, and contributes several of his own. The subjects include celebrated modern British writers such as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and Alan Bennett, and two major figures from the past, Anthony Trollope and H.G.Wells. Lodge examines connections between the style and the man in the diaries of the playwright Simon Gray and the cultural criticism of Terry Eagleton, and recalls how his own literary career was entwined with that of his friend Malcolm Bradbury.All except one of the subjects (Princess Diana) are or were themselves professionally "in writing", making this collection a kind of casebook of the splendours and miseries of authorship. In a final essay Lodge describes the genesis and compositional method of his recent novel about H.G.Wells, A Man of Parts, and engages with the critical controversies that have been provoked by the increasing popularity of narrative and dramatic writing that combines fact and fiction.Drawing on David Lodge''s long experience as a novelist and critic, Lives in Writing is a fascinating study of the interface between life and literature.

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 ...

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.

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.

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain''s finest novelists and critics.A nameless man, who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first and formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers and magazines up and down the platforms of Waterloo station. Some years before the era of the Pill and the Permissive Society, four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together, where the climate is sultry and sex is on everyones mind. And a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs.These are some of the characters that populate David Lodges shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining short stories, collected here for the very first time. What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself, told by the author in his Foreword.

The plate-glass, concrete jungle of Euphoria State University, USA, and the damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual exchange scheme. Normally the exchange passes without comment. But when Philip Swallow swaps with Professor Zapp the fates play a hand.

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 mon

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

The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction.

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothys early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.

When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge?s own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing.