David Lodge Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Quante volte figliolo?" domandava una volta il sacerdote dalla grata del confessionale, dopo aver ascoltato l'elenco di tutti i peccati... Lo sguardo divertito di David Lodge si appunta questa volta su un gruppo di giovani studenti cattolici, di ognuno dei quali egli segue affettuosamente la storia a partire dalle prime esperienze sessuali - inevitabilmente vissute con senso di colpa - fino agli anni della maturità. Angela e Dennis, Ruth, Adrian, Violet e tutti gli altri si ritrovano in chiesa ogni giovedì mattina, si laureano, si amano, si sposano, lavorano, fanno figli nel contraddittorio travaglio dei mitici anni Sessanta e Settanta. E si interrogano sui dettami morali imposti dalla Chiesa cattolica romana, cui tutti appartengono. Con l'ironia che ben conosciamo Lodge alleggerisce - fino a sfiorare effetti di pura comicità - i toni di una materia che, di per sé, si avvicinerebbe di più al melodramma che alla commedia. Pubblicato direttamente in edizione economica, Quante volte, figliolo? (1980) è un romanzo fresco e divertente, la cui lettura regalerà senza dubbio momenti di grande serenità e piacevolezza.

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

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...

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

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

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.

Dans le cadre de la mythique université de Gloucester, deux personnages sont engagés dans le jeu complexe de la séduction : Ralph Messenger, spécialiste des sciences cognitives, et Helen Reed, romancière fragilisée par son récent veuvage. A travers une succession d’événements et de retournements de situation, l’auteur confirme avec brio ce que soutient Messenger, à savoir qu’on ne peut jamais connaître avec certitude ce que pense l’autre.

Jim has fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A moderately successful future beckons as long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend, deliver a lecture on merrie England and resist Christine, the girlfriend of Professor Welch's son, Bertrand.

A qui David Lodge veut-il dire ses quatre vérités ? A Adrian, l'écrivain qui ne se remet pas d'un premier succès des années auparavant ? A Eleanor, sa femme, avec qui il vit retiré à la campagne ? A Sam, leur ami d'université qui a réussi à Hollywood dans les feuilletons télévisés ? A Fanny Tarrant, la jeune journaliste effrontée qui publie un article féroce sur Sam dans un journal du dimanche ? Sur qui se refermera le piège imaginé par Sam avec la complicité d'Adrian ? Brillant, toujours drôle, David Lodge s'intéresse au conflit entre littérature et tiques.

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.

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.

Hors de l'abri est le plus autobiographique des romans de David Lodge. Le Blitz de Londres en 1940, l'évacuation à la campagne, puis les années d'austérité dans une banlieue londonienne et le collège catholique. Mais David Lodge ne fait pas œuvre d'historien : Il raconte avec sa verve et son humour habituels les aventures de Timothy, seize ans - son double - pendant les vacances de l'été 1951, chez sa sœur qui travaille pour l'armée américaine à Heidelberg. Dans ce milieu, il découvre la vie, la fête, les premiers jeux de séduction. Ses rencontres seront pour lui le rite de passage entre enfance et vie adulte. Hors de l'abri est à la fois un " roman d'apprentissage " et un " roman international ". Dedalus de James Joyce et Les Ambassadeurs de Henry James sont les modèles littéraires évidents de David Lodge pour ce roman.

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

Lawrence Passmore a mal au genou. Mais son problème est beaucoup plus vaste. Il se livre en vain à toutes les thérapies possibles. Plus il se sent malheureux, plus les difficultés conjugales et professionnelles semblent s'accumuler. Ses tentatives d'aventures sexuelles sont loin de lui apporter la compensation souhaitée. Jusqu'à la trouvaille finale... David Lodge nous fait ressentir avec une drôlerie inimitable l'accablement croissant de son narrateur. Au passage, il dresse un portrait caustique du monde de la télévision... et des thérapeutes. C'est une vérité profonde de notre univers quotidien qui passe à travers le divertissement.

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)

"'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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

Qu'y-a-t-il de commun entre Vic Wilcox, directeur général de Pringle and Sons, une entreprise de métallurgie anglaise en pleine restructuration, et Robyn Penrose, une jeune universitaire spécialiste des jeux de déconstruction littéraire et plus particulièrement de l'étude sémiologique des "romans industriels" victoriens ? Pas grand-chose en apparence. Mais tout est remis en jeu lorsque Robyn Penrose doit suivre un stage chez Pringle and Sons et devenir "l'ombre" de son directeur dans le cadre de "l'Année de l'Industrie". Cette confrontation brutale - et cocasse - est un peu celle de la thèse et de l'antithèse, au coeur de Rummidge, cette variante fictive de Birmingham. "L'humour dévaste les pages pourtant bien peignées de ce roman." (Monique Gehler, L'Evénement du jeudi)

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.

Le lecteur retrouvera avec plaisir les protagonistes de changement de décor dans cette satire à l'emporte-pièce du "petit monde" des congrès universitaires où se retrouve le jet set des professeurs de littérature. L'oeuvre, aussi construite qu'un Feydeau, aussi échevelée qu'un roman picaresque et aussi retorse que le veut la vague postmoderniste, mêle avec brio érudition littéraire et critique des moeurs. Les personnages sont peut-être de carton-pâte mais le spectacle de leurs contorsions est d'une si désopilante intelligence, qu'Eco parle avec justesse de "livre culte" et de "grand livre" dans la préface à ce roman de 1984.

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.

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?

Deux avions se croisent en plein ciel quelque part au-dessus du pôle Nord, l'un transporte un professeur américain brillant, spécialiste de Jane Austen, qui arrive d'une grande université de la côte Pacifique, l'autre, un professeur anglais un peu médiocre qui vient d'une université des Midlands et n'a d'autre titre de gloire que de savoir concocter des épreuves d'examen. Ils ont décidé d'échanger leur poste pour une durée de six mois. C'est avec ce roman que David Lodge a inauguré sa série désormais célèbre qu'il poursuivra avec Un tout petit monde et Jeu de société et dans laquelle destins et chemins se croisent et s'entrechoquent dans un humour subtil.

Dans son troisième roman, David Lodge s'amuse à nous raconter les pérégrinations d'Adam Appleby dans le brouillard de Londres et fait du dilemme religieux et sexuel du héros la structure obsédante de ce livre. Cocasseries, parodies et pastiches font des tribulations d'Adam un roman des plus comiques. En un jour, le héros est propulsé dans une série d'aventures picaresques tournant autour du British Museum, et sa vie en est incroyablement transformée. "La Chute du British Museum est un roman éminemment comique qui ne cesse de rebondir avec une grâce facétieuse et indolente." (Frédéric Vitoux, Le Nouvel Observateur)