by David Lodge · Rivages · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782869306554
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«La Chute du British Museum» is David Lodge's comic novel, published by Rivages in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Adam Appleby, a young Catholic literature student, spends an ill-fated day in London fearing his wife is pregnant again. Between the library and the surroundings of the British Museum, he is dragged into absurd entanglements. The narrative combines parodies and pastiches of the great authors Adam studies, turning his anxieties into an intelligent comedy.
Translation from English by Laurent Dufour. Original 1965 novel titled «The British Museum Is Falling Down». Volume in the Bibliothèque étrangère collection from Rivages poche.
For readers who enjoy British literary comedy, satires of academic life, and playful parodies of the great novelistic styles.
David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
