David Lodge

Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has …

Il professore va al congresso è un romanzo di David Lodge del 1984, selezionato tra i finalisti del Booker Prize di quell'anno. Il romanzo è la continuazione di Scambi del 1975, e pertanto i personaggi principali sono gli stessi, i professori Philip Swallow e Morris Zapp e le loro mogli, alle prese con un circuito di …

The Art of Fiction is a book of literary criticism by the British novelist David Lodge. The chapters of the book first appeared in 1991-1992 as weekly columns in The Independent on Sunday and were eventually gathered into book form and published in 1992. The essays as they appear in the book have in many cases been …