by David Lodge · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140062144
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«The British Museum is Falling Down» is David Lodge's satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Set in 1960s London, it follows Adam Appleby, a literature student and practising Catholic who, married with three children, fears his wife may be pregnant again while he tries to make progress on his thesis at the British Museum. A satire on faith, family and social conventions, with echoes of James Joyce.
The work was originally published in 1965; this Penguin edition is from 1983.
For readers of British humour and social satire, as well as followers of contemporary English fiction.
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).
