One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes
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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