by David Lodge · RIVAGES · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782869305588
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«Un tout petit monde» is a satirical novel by David Lodge, published by Rivages in paperback (520 pages, in French).
Persse McGarrigle, a young Irish poet, attends his first academic conference in Rummidge and falls in love with Angelica Pabst, while Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp and other professors travel the world from colloquium to colloquium. A satire of academia with humour and constant literary references.
Originally published in 1984, it is the second instalment of David Lodge's campus trilogy, translated from English by Maurice and Yvonne Couturier and with a foreword by Umberto Eco.
For those who enjoy academic satire and novels set in the university world.
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).
