David Lodge

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David Lodge (born January 28, 1935 in London ) is an English writer and literary scholar . He is considered a master of the university novel ( campus novel ), but has also made a name for himself through humorous and satirical works on other subjects as well as through literary non-fiction.

Lodge was a professor of English at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987 and has lived in this city since then as a freelance writer.

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Some of his books are set in fictional locations such as "Rummidge", which carries trains from Birmingham , or in " Euphoria ", a fictional state on the US west coast "between northern and southern California". The "State University of Euphoria" in Esseph (pronounced "SF") is based on the San Francisco State University .

Paradise News contains a tongue-in-cheek criticism of civilization ( using the example of life in Hawaii ) and an examination of modern theology . The book Thinks ... combines a sophisticated relationship history with an overview of the current state of neurobiology .

Several of Lodge's works deal with the situation of Catholics in England , especially after the changes made by the Second Vatican Council . In How Far Can You Go? it is about how far you can go in a double sense: in physical rapprochement with a person of the opposite sex before marriage , but also in questioning religious certainties.

The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965), his third novel , combines the story of a young Catholic couple who live in constant fear of their next pregnancy because of the prohibition of contraception by the Catholic Church , with parodies of well-known writers such as James Joyce , Joseph Conrad or Ernest Hemingway . The final chapter is a parody of the final monologue by Molly Bloom ( Leopold Bloom's wife) in Joyce's novel Ulysses .

Out of the Shelter is in large part of a holiday stay that the young author once in Heidelberg the postwar spent. The book has autobiographical traits that are specified in an afterword .

For his work Changing Places Lodge received the Hawthornden Prize in 1975 .

In Therapy (1995) Lodge processes his experiences on the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain , which he relates to his reading experiences in the work of Søren Kierkegaard .

The campus novel Thinks ... (2001) tells the story of adultery of a charismatic and highly intelligent cognitive scientist who, although he has a wife and children, starts a brief affair with a writer, but who is not very intuitioned in the interpersonal field. The novel draws its momentum from the intellectual exchange of blows between the two main characters and from the fundamental opposition between the intellectual schools they represent. Who tells us the truth: science or art?

A Man of Parts (2011) depicts the life of the English author HG Wells in a novel.

Several of his books ( Small World , Nice Work , Martin Chuzzlewit ) have been adapted for television, some by himself.

Works

Novels

  • 1960 The Picturegoers
  • 1962 Ginger, You're Barmy
  • 1965 The British Museum Is Falling Down
  • 1970 Out of the Shelter
  • 1975 Changing Places
    • Change of location , German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Munich: List 1986. ISBN 3-471-78037-8
  • 1980 How Far Can You Go? - US title Souls and Bodies
  • 1984 Small World: An Academic Romance
    • Small world: an academic romance , German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Zurich: Haffmans 1996. ISBN 3-251-00312-7
    • Scavenger hunt , German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Munich: List 1985. ISBN 3-471-78032-7
  • 1988 Nice Work
  • 1991 Paradise News
    • Latest Paradies-Nachrichten , German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Zurich: Haffmans 1992. ISBN 3-251-00207-4
  • 1995 Therapy
  • 2001 Thinks ...
  • 2004 Author, Author
    • Author, author , German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Frankfurt am Main: Haffmans bei Zweiausendeins 2006. ISBN 3-86150-567-3
  • 2008 Deaf Sentence
  • 2011 A Man of Parts
    • A whole man , German by Martin Richter and Yamin von Rauch, Berlin: Haffmans & Tolkemitt 2012. ISBN 978-3-942989-22-0

Other literary works

  • 1990 The Writing Game
    • Literary games or the creative weekend seminar for upcoming writers , comedy, German by Inge Greiffenhagen and Daniel Karasek , Zurich: Haffmans 1992. ISBN 3-251-01181-2
  • 1996 Summer stories - winter tales , stories, German by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Zurich: Haffmans 1996. ISBN 3-251-00338-0
  • 1998 The Man Who Would not Get Up, and Other Stories , stories
  • 1998 Home Truths
  • 1999 Home Truths
    • Bitter truths , novella, German by Bernd Eilert, Zurich: Haffmans 2000. ISBN 3-251-00465-4

Non-fiction

  • 1966 Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
  • 1971 The Novelist at the Crossroads: And Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism
  • 1977 The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature ,
  • 1981 Working with Structuralism: Essay and Reviews on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
  • 1986 Write On: Occasional Essays '65 -'85
  • 1990 After Bakhtin : Essays on Fiction and Criticism ,
  • 1992 The Art of Fiction
  • 1997 The Practice of Writing
  • 2003 Consciousness and the Novel
  • 2006 The Year of Henry James - The Story of a Novel

literature

  • Daniel Ammann: [1] David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel . University Publishing House C. Winter, Heidelberg 1991. English Research 216. ISBN 978-3-8253-4404-7
  • Bernard Bergonzi: David Lodge . From the series Writers and their work . Northcote House, Plymouth 1995 ISBN 0-7463-0755-1
  • Bruce K. Martin: David Lodge . Twayne, New York 1999 ISBN 0-8057-1671-8
  • Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger: David Lodge as a literary critic, theorist and novelist . Winter, Heidelberg 1993 ISBN 3-8253-0158-3 (also dissertation from the University of Graz, 1990/1991)
  • Norbert Schürer: David Lodge. An annotated primary and secondary bibliography . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995 ISBN 3-631-47849-6 (bibliography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Mars-Jones: It was cognition at first sight. In: The Guardian. February 18, 2001, accessed May 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lodge, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London