by David Lodge · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140174922
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«The Art of Fiction» is David Lodge's guide to narrative technique, published by Penguin Publishing Group in hardback (256 pages, in English).
The book brings together the articles David Lodge published in The Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post, revised and expanded. Each section addresses a narrative device (suspense, interior monologue, metafiction or the unreliable narrator) and illustrates it with passages from Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf or Martin Amis.
The subtitle of the work is 'Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts'. The original edition dates from 1992; this Penguin Books edition was published in July 1994 and includes bibliographic references and an index.
For literature students, aspiring writers and any reader interested in understanding how the mechanisms of fiction work.
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).
