by David Lodge · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140124194
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«The British Museum Is Falling Down» is David Lodge's comic novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (182 pages, in English).
In 1960s London, Adam Appleby, a Catholic postgraduate literature student, researches in the British Museum reading room while fearing his wife may be pregnant with a fourth child. Amid distractions and absurd encounters, the novel parodies modern authors' styles and humorously portrays faith, family, and academic life.
The novel was originally published in 1965; this 1989 edition belongs to the King Penguin collection.
A read for those who enjoy British humour, academic satire, and literary parody.
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).
