David Lodge Knihy

Profesorská rošáda je nielen opisom problémov ľudí žijúcich v cudzej krajine s odlišnými zvyklosťami, ale odkrýva mnoho humorných situácií z akademického sveta. Aby ste sa pobavili, nemusíte poznať univerzitný svet, stačí, ak vám nechýba zmysel pre humor, hoci aj čierny. V prvý deň roku 1969 sa vysoko vo vzduchu nad severným pólom míňajú dvaja profesori anglickej literatúry. Angličan Phillip Swallow a Američan Morris Zapp si na jeden semester vymenia svoje učiteľské miesta. Swallow cestuje na západ do slnečnej Euphorie, Zapp na východ do zachmúreného severného Anglicka do Harraburgridgea. V tejto chvíli ešte netušia, že si nevymieňajú len pracovné posty. Každý z nich utrpí kultúrny šok a každý sa s ním vyrovnáva po svojom. Profesorská rošáda sa odohráva roku 1969, bezprostredne po študentských nepokojoch. Univerzita v Euphorii sa hemží anarchistickými živlami. Philip Swallow je konfrontovaný s rebelujúcimi študentmi, ktorí sa zaujímajú viac o politiku ako o samotné štúdium. Morris Zapp zatiaľ rieši úplne odlišné problémy v Harraburgridgi, na britskú mentalitu sa díva podozrievavo a musí sa zmieriť s tým, že vykúrená pracovňa je na tejto univerzite luxusom. Postupne, ako sa obaja páni v novom prostredí udomácňujú, zistia, že život v cudzine môže mať aj svoje výhody

Román Svet je malý je voľným pokračovaním Profesorský rošády. Po desiatich rokoch sa na scéne objavujú naši starí známi – Philip Swallow a Morris Zapp, tentoraz aj s manželkami. Doména ich pôsobenie sa rozširuje na svet medzinárodných literárněteoretických konferencií. Zároveň sa tu vytvára paralela medzi dobrodružstvími univerzitných bádateľov a stredovekými osudy rytierov kráľa Artuša. Nový mladý hrdina Persse McGarrigle vyvoláva svojím rytierskym harcováním za nedostupným ideálom krásy a lásky asociácie s Parsifalom a jeho hľadaním svätého grálu.

Profesor Desmond Bates odchádza do predčasného dôchodku. Vôbec si ho však nevie užívať. Chýba mu zmysluplná rutina akademického života, no vedecká práca ho už nenapĺňa. Kým on sa lúči s profesionálnym životom, manželkina kariéra začína prekvitať. Jeho úloha sa zredukuje na muža v domácnosti. Monotónne dni mu narúšajú len únavné návštevy Londýna, kde chodí kontrolovať svojho tvrdohlavého 89-ročného otca. To všetko však nie je nič v porovnaní s jeho problémami so sluchom. Hovorí sa, že hluchota je smiešna a slepota tragická. Je to naozaj tak? Práve vďaka svojej hluchote sa Desmond nechtiac zapletie s mladou ženou, ktorej správanie ho vyvedie z rovnováhy. Ako, prosím? je vtipný a zároveň dojemný román. Je to skvelá úvaha o snahe muža vysporiadať sa s hluchotou a smrťou, starnutím a smrteľnosťou, komédiou a tragédiou v ľudskom živote.

Satirický, částečně autobiografický román o přátelství, odpovědnosti a hledání vlastní identity z prostředí kasáren. Dva spolužáci ze školy se setkají coby branci na cestě do kasáren. Jon a Mik jsou mladí muži odlišných povah, kteří se snaží s větším či menším úspěchem zvládnout dva roky vojenského života, což se daří přizpůsobivému Jonatanovi lépe než přímočarému Mikovi, který se (po řadě konfrontací, které vyústí napadením velícího poddůstojníka) dostane do vězení. Příběh je vyprávěn peprným vojenským slangem.

First published in 1996, this is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching of the same and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage.

Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, ‘Nice Work’ is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings.When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle’s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other’s worlds – and about themselves.'A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' Observer.

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence ‘Tubby’ Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby’s life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks – via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood – on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment, in an ingenious, hilarious and poignant novel of neuroses.

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and extravagant.

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence and their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society. It was inevitable that things would change radically. But how far could it go?

David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" ( The New York Times ). Thinks . . . , his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the nature of consciousness, unfolds in the alternating voices of Ralph Messenger, director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Gloucester, and Helen Reed, a novelist and writer in residence at the university. Mutually attracted, the two end up in a moral standoff that is shattered by events that dramatically confirm the truth of Ralph's "we can never know for certain what another person is thinking."

A graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic, Adam Appleby is also married and has three children. On this foggy day in London, work and life conspire to propel Adam through a series of disasters which will leave readers laughing out loud. --Amazon.

Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack’s dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freeloading anthropologist, and assorted tourists all determinedly pursuing their humdrum visions of paradise, Bernard finds Waikiki more like purgatory. Until, that is, he stumbles upon something he had given up hope of finding – the astonishing possibility of love…

Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams

To engelske forfattere bestemmer sig for at hævne sig på en kvindelig journalist da den ene er blevet udsat for et nedrigt portræt i en søndagsavis

'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.

Reprint. Originally published: London: E. Arnold, 1977.

Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature.

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to describe honestly and in some detail the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres: prose fiction, literary criticism, plays for live theatre and screenplays for film and television. Few writers have excelled in so many different forms of the written word. Lodge's creativity, and his wonderful sense of humour, have made his work popular in translation in numerous countries, and his extensive travels around the world are recorded here. Each of the three memoirs has its own thematic focus. In this latest one it is on the hope and desire of writers to make a significant and positive impression on their readers and audiences. The elation of success, and the depression that follows disappointment, are familiar emotions to most writers in varying degrees. David Lodge describes these feelings with rare candour. Varying Degrees of Success provides the reader with a privileged insight into the working practices and the creative life of a major British novelist.

The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical 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. Technical terms, such as Interior Monologue, Metafiction, Intertextuality and the Unreliable Narrator, are lucidly explained and their application demonstrated. Bringing to criticism the verve and humour of his own novels, David Lodge has provided essential reading for students of literature, aspirant writers, and anyone who wishes to understand how literature works.

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist -- all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

Born on January 28, 1935, in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge's artistic roots trace back to his musician father and Irish-Belgian Catholic mother. Growing up during World War II, he experienced significant social and cultural transformations that would later inform his writing. This memoir reflects on his life leading up to the publication of his breakthrough book, Changing Places. Lodge recalls his childhood and university years at University College London, where he met his future wife, Mary. After completing National Service and postgraduate research, he finally marries and becomes a father, facing the challenges of establishing himself as a novelist and academic. A fortunate opportunity at the University of Birmingham introduces him to Malcolm Bradbury, a colleague with similar aspirations. His promising career unfolds alongside a fulfilling marriage, offering chances for travel and engagement with new ideas and friends, while also presenting unexpected professional and personal hurdles. Candid, witty, and insightful, this memoir provides a compelling glimpse into a transformative era in British society and the development of a writer who has achieved classic status in his lifetime.

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. But as the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of knowledge about this phenomenon that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge here explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in the light of recent investigations in cognitive science, neuroscience, and related disciplines. How, Lodge asks, does the novel represent consciousness? And how has this changed over time? In a series of interconnected essays, he pursues this question down various paths: how does the novel's method compare with that of other creative media such as film? How does the consciousness (and unconscious) of the creative writer do its work? And how can criticism infer the nature of this process through formal analysis? In essays on Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Henry James, John Updike and Philip Roth, and in reflections on his own practice as a novelist, Lodge brings to light - and to engaging life

Where do novelists get their ideas from? How do they develop an idea into a narrative with a specific and individual form? David Lodge traces the history of his novel about Henry James, from the very first mention of the basic idea, through the processes of research and writing, to the publication and reception of the finished book.

Roman om Henry James' katastrofale vovestykke da han skrev skuespillet Guy Domville

James Dixon, mladý lektor histórie na jednej provinčnej univerzite, má obdivuhodný zmysel pre humor. Svojimi provokatívnymi kúskami dáva najavo, ako mu je protivná bezduchosť a skostnatenosť univerzitného prostredia, a čelí nimi všetkým prejavom pretvárky a hlúposti v pracovných i osobných vzťahoch.

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.Conscription has made Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady prisoners of the British Army. But reckless, impulsive Mike and pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to this. Then one day Mike goes too far, with consequences that threaten to overturn Jonathan's cultivated detachment from the idiocies of military life.

Mark, the cynical intellectual, who seeks sensuality in the body of an ex-novice nun and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy - just some among the crowd who make their Saturday-night pilgrimage to the peeling suburban pleasure-dome of the Palladium, Brickley, and who touch and shape each others destinies.

David Lodge has entertained readers for forty years with his often hilarious tales of on- and off-curriculum shenanigans at university campuses. Penguin has published eighteen of Lodge's books in paperback since 1978, and here he has selected some of the most memorable moments from his novels, illustrating the high-minded (and low-minded) life of the academic, and the changing fortunes of Britain's places of higher education.

A satirical masterpiece set immediately after the First world War, during the years of delusion and excess in which old values were submerged in tidal waves of cynicism and hedonism. A fantastic read. (fic)

Novelist, critic, lecturer, reviewer, man-about-conferences, David Lodge, as both analyst and practitioner, is one of our foremost experts in the forms of fiction. He is also an uncommonly sympathetic and informed observer of the passing scene, and his penetrating vision is set in a consistently ironic frame. David Lodge's humour can be a devastating weapon, but it is continually engaging because as often as not the sniper's sights are trained on the author himself, and on the curiously mobile, cosmopolitan yet specialist world he inhabits. The essays and reviews collected in this volume are selected from the occasional writings over a span of twenty years, and are all prompted by an impulse - or an invitation - to "write on" some specific topic: a book, a film, an anniversary, a trip abroad. They also reflect the drive of the professional to keep writing, "to keep the muscles of composition exercised." The pieces collected here are designed for a wide audience, and most focus, in more or less direct ways, on Lodge's own work as a novelist. Enthusiasts will take especial pleasure in discovering sources for episodes from his novels, in tracing how reality mutates into fiction - or how on occasion, the process works the other way round.

"'Ginger, You're Barmy: an account of life as a National serviceman. 'The British Museum is Falling Down', a comic portrait of a recently married postgraduate student taking refuge in fantasy from the Vatican's ruling on contraception; and 'How Far Can You Go?', which features a group of students over three decades of shifts in the rules of religion and society

Resulting from the Annual Biological Council Symposium on Drug Action held at the Royal Institution in London in April 1987, this book provides an up-to-date review of Excitatory Amino Acid (EAA) research. The list of international contributors is drawn from the forefront of scientists investigating EAAs.

Sommergeschichten - Wintermärchen - bk85; Heyne Verlag; David Lodge; pocket_book; 2005

Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein.

Ο Μπέρναρντ Γουώλς έχει πάψει από καιρό να πιστεύει στον Παράδεισο. Δεν προσδοκά σπουδαία πράγματα από τη μέλλουσα ζωή - για την ακρίβεια, ούτε από την παρούσα. Όσο για το ταξίδι του στη Χαβάη, δεν πηγαίνει αναζητώντας τον «επίγειο παράδεισο»· πηγαίνει με το γέρο πατέρα του, για να συναντήσουν τη θεία Ούρσουλα, που είναι στα τελευταία της... Ένα σωρό αναποδιές, ωστόσο, καθυστερούν τη συνάντηση του κυρίου Γουώλς με την αδερφή του και ο Μπέρναρντ κοντεύει να παραφρονήσει μέσα στην αφόρητη ζέστη, μόνος ανάμεσα στα σμήνη των τουριστών που οργώνουν το νησί με βιντεοκάμερες, αντηλιακά, πολύχρωμα πουκάμισα και εκπτωτικά κουπόνια.. Στον εμπορευματοποιημένο φθαρμένο παράδεισο της Χαβάης, η συνειδησιακή κρίση του Μπέρναρντ και η χρεοκοπία της θρησκείας συναντούν τη συλλογική νεύρωση των διακοπών σε μια εκρηκτική όσο και εύστοχη σάτιρα. Αλλά το σύντομο πέρασμα από αυτή τη λεηλατημένη Ουτοπία ίσως τελικά αποδειχτεί σωτήριο. Ίσως αλλάξει τη ζωή του Μπέρναρντ για πάντα, μ’ έναν τρόπο που μόνο ο Ντέηβιντ Λοτζ, ο τεχνίτης της υπαρξιακής κωμωδίας, θα μπορούσε να συλλάβει...

Desmond, professeur de linguistique marié à Winifred, vit paisiblement dans une grande ville de province. Il saisit l'opportunité de prendre une retraite anticipée. Son quotidien est rythmé par la lecture du journal, des travaux domestiques, des visites à son père à Londres et des activités avec sa femme. Lors d'un vernissage, il rencontre une étudiante, mais son oui͏̈e lui joue des tours.

Dieser Doppelband vereint die Bestseller „Therapie“ und „Denkt“ von David Lodge. „Therapie“ folgt Tubby Passmore, einem Sitcom-Autor, der durch Therapien und persönliche Krisen versucht, sein Leben zu ordnen. „Denkt“ erzählt von David Messenger, einem Direktor, dessen sexuelles Interesse an einer neuen Dozentin zu unerwarteten Wendungen führt.

2002 overview of therapeutic strategies using modulators of ionotropic glutamate receptor function. Each chapter focuses on the role of glutamate in a particular disorder.