by David Lodge · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140072655
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«Small World: An Academic Romance» is David Lodge's satirical novel of the academic world, published by Penguin in paperback (352 pages, in English).
A group of academics travels the world from conference to conference seeking love, recognition, and a highly coveted chair. Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, and Angelica cross paths across the globe in a succession of implausible coincidences. With irony, Lodge portrays the ambitions and entanglements of the university world.
It is part of David Lodge's The Campus Trilogy series, of which it is the second installment. The novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1984.
For readers of academic satire and contemporary British fiction, with an interest in comedies set in university environments and British humor.
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).
