David Lodge, a renowned British novelist best known for his 'campus novels' like 'Changing Places' and 'Small World,' has died at the age of 89. Lodge's works often explored the lives and experiences of academics, drawing inspiration from his own career as an English literature professor at the University of Birmingham. His novels frequently employed humor and satire to examine themes of education, intellectual life, and social change.
David Lodge once confessed to having a fondness for binary structures. Imagine, he wrote, “two professors passing each other over the North Pole on their way to exchange jobs . . . or a parallel between the antics of globetrotting academics and the adventures of the knights of chivalric romance”.
The following year, 1960, was an auspicious one for Lodge: he was hired as a lecturer at Birmingham and published his first novel, The Picturegoers, which evokes the south-east London of his childhood and adolescence. This book, and the one that followed, Ginger, You’re Barmy, are, in Lodge’s own description, “essentially serious works of scrupulous realism”. But his third novel, The British Museum is Falling Down, is a comedy.
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